Editing Persepolis (section)

==Museums (outside Iran) that display objects from Persepolis==
One bas-relief from Persepolis is in the [[Fitzwilliam Museum]] in [[Cambridge]], England.<ref>A Persepolis Relief in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Richard Nicholls and Michael Roaf. Iran, Vol. 15, (1977), pp. 146–152. Published by: British Institute of Persian Studies.</ref> The largest collection of reliefs is at the [[British Museum]], sourced from multiple British travellers who worked in Iran in the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Allen |first=Lindsay |date=2013-01-01 |title="Come Then Ye Classic Thieves of Each Degree": The Social Context of the Persepolis Diaspora in the Early Nineteenth Century |journal=Iran |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=207–234 |doi=10.1080/05786967.2013.11834730 |s2cid=193984848 |issn=0578-6967}}</ref> The Persepolis bull at the [[University of Chicago Oriental Institute|Oriental Institute]] in Chicago is one of the university's most prized treasures, part of the division of finds from the excavations of the 1930s. New York City's [[Metropolitan Museum of Art|Metropolitan Museum]] and [[Detroit Institute of Art]] houses objects from Persepolis,<ref>Harper, Prudence O., Barbara A. Porter, Oscar White Muscarella, Holly Pittman, and Ira Spar. "Ancient Near Eastern Art." The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] Bulletin, v. 41, no. 4 (Spring, 1984).</ref> as does the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]] of the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/258882 |title=Relief – B10301 &#124; Collections – Penn Museum |website=penn.museum |access-date=8 September 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215230221/https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/258882 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mba-lyon.fr/fr/collection-home/decouvrir-les-collections |title=Découvrir les collections |website=Musée des Beaux Arts Lyon |access-date=8 September 2020 |archive-date=24 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924040940/https://www.mba-lyon.fr/fr/collection-home/decouvrir-les-collections |url-status=live }}</ref> and the [[Louvre]] of Paris hold objects from Persepolis as well. A bas-relief of a soldier that had been looted from the excavations in 1935–36 and later purchased by the [[Montreal Museum of Fine Arts]] was repatriated to Iran in 2018, after being offered for sale in London and New York.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/arts/design/judge-orders-return-of-ancient-limestone-relief-to-iran.html |title=Judge Orders Return of Ancient Limestone Relief to Iran |last=Mashberg |first=Tom |date=2018-07-23 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-07-03 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410061057/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/arts/design/judge-orders-return-of-ancient-limestone-relief-to-iran.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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File:Forgotten Empire Exhibition, (Room 5).1.JPG|''Forgotten Empire Exhibition'', the [[British Museum]]
File:The British Museum, Room 5-Persepolis Bas-relief.jpg|''Forgotten Empire Exhibition'', the [[British Museum]]
File:UC Oriental Institute Iranian artifacts ancient 10.JPG|Persepolitan rosette rock relief, kept at the [[University of Chicago Oriental Institute|Oriental Institute]]
File:Persian Objects at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - 2015.jpg|alt=Museum display case showing Achaemenid objects.|Achaemenid objects at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], including a bas relief from Persepolis
File:Head of an archer of the royal guard, 2 of 2, from the Palace of Xerxes, Achaemenid Persia, 486-465 BC, limestone - Sackler Museum - Harvard University - DSC01732.jpg|Head of an archer of the royal guard from Hadish palace, [[Harvard Art Museums|Sackler Museum]] - [[Harvard University]]
File:Fragment of wall decoration from the Palace of Xerxes, guardsman in procession, 486-465 BC, Achaemenid, Iran, Persepolis, gray limestone - Cleveland Museum of Art - DSC08093.JPG|Fragment of wall decoration from Hadish palace, [[Cleveland Museum of Art]]
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