PALACE OF THE HUNDRED COLUMNS (THRONE ROOM)
Xerxes (486-465 BC), son of Darius I, will build a second reception room near the Apadana. Under Xerxes, the immense Persian Empire had up to 28 nations submissive and paying for the «King of Kings».
After having marched on the great square, the emissaries probably put their present at the feet of the king, sitting in this room. Artaxerxes I (465-424 B.C.) also establishes his Prince's Palace, which says the Hundred Columns as a result of their ten-fold alignment. Unfortunately, the fire devastated the whole. Only the stone bases remain.
The broad jambs of the building's doors were decorated in the same spirit as the grave of Darius. The king appears - carved into bas-relief in the stone doorways of the immense doors - followed by his servants or in the form of the dominant hero or winged monsters, old symbol of the hunter king or master of the animals from the fourth millennium. See also his representation on the throne, under a canopy, worn by the two kings of arms, Persians and Medes, and then by the 28 peoples of the Empire. On some jambs of the palace of Xerxes, the old «mythical master of animals» received a political interpretation, symbol of the Persian man, which Darius recalled, on the inscription of his tomb, that he had fought to extend the borders of the Empire.
Stay behind the Apadana on the royal residential palaces with gardens and fountains.
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