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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: davidb on Aug 17, 2021, 06:32 PM

Title: Ancient relief depicting Greek-Persian war unearthed in NW Turkey
Post by: davidb on Aug 17, 2021, 06:32 PM
Came across this today:

https://m.yenisafak.com/en/news/ancient-relief-depicting-greek-persian-war-unearthed-in-nw-turkey-3578495
Title: Re: Ancient relief depicting Greek-Persian war unearthed in NW Turkey
Post by: Duncan Head on Aug 17, 2021, 06:55 PM
Very interesting - can;t make much out in the photos, though!
Title: Re: Ancient relief depicting Greek-Persian war unearthed in NW Turkey
Post by: davidb on Aug 17, 2021, 07:51 PM
I know. I was disappointed about that too.
Title: Re: Ancient relief depicting Greek-Persian war unearthed in NW Turkey
Post by: DBS on Aug 17, 2021, 08:22 PM
I have tried playing with the levels of the photo to get greater contrast.  I may be kidding myself, but I think the right hand horse at least has a leg and torso of a rider, and possibly a shield visible under the horses centre-left...
Title: Re: Ancient relief depicting Greek-Persian war unearthed in NW Turkey
Post by: Imperial Dave on Aug 18, 2021, 09:50 AM
crikey, I've tried and tried but I am struggling to make much out at all...
Title: Re: Ancient relief depicting Greek-Persian war unearthed in NW Turkey
Post by: Erpingham on Aug 18, 2021, 10:12 AM
It does look more like a procession than a battle scene - we need more high quality photos to study in detail to be clear.
Title: Re: Ancient relief depicting Greek-Persian war unearthed in NW Turkey
Post by: DBS on Aug 18, 2021, 10:26 AM
If the evidence is this single panel in the photographs, then I am somewhat sceptical of the excavators' assertion that it depicts Graeco-Persian conflict; there just does not seem enough there to say that.  Even if there is a body or two (with or without my guess at a possible shield) under the horses' hooves, bit of an assumption to say the fallen are Greeks...