Hung-i Nauruzi
Hung-i Nauruzi (also Hung-i Azdhar ) is located in Iran , in the province of Chuzestan , the ancient Elymais . There are two Parthian rock reliefs here.
The first relief shows six roughly life-size figures. In the middle is the tallest figure, a man who is dressed in trousers and wears a tunic over it. He is depicted frontally, has a beard and wears a headgear and holds a dagger in his right hand. Behind him (that is, on the right side of the relief) there are three other men in similar costume, but shown a little smaller. In front of the large central figure you can see a rider who is again shown in full profile. He too is wearing a tunic and has a diadem on his head. In front of him and the largest figure there is an eagle. Another figure stands behind the rider.
The relief is not labeled and has been interpreted and dated differently in different ways. It has been suggested that the rider was the Parthian King Mithridates I , who had conquered the Elymais and to whom the local rulers pay their respects. The relief would therefore be around 140 BC. To date. However, there are other suggestions as well. A god was seen in the large central figure, or the rider as a local, royal ancestor, to whom later kings pay their respects. The dates therefore vary from 140 BC. Until the third century after the birth of Christ.
A second rock relief shows a single male figure, perhaps from a larger composition that has now been destroyed.
literature
- Hans Erik Mathiesen: Sculpture in the Parthian Empire , Aarhus 1992, pp. 119-121, ISBN 87-7288-311-1