Persepolis. Relief of the monument stairways of the Apadana or Audience Hall (5th-6th centuries BC). Relief of the Immortals, Persian imperial guards, Detail. Depiction of soldiers wearingdifferent uniforms, Medes and Persians. The Medes however wore a felt cap forming a semicircular dome. Xerxes I (486-465 BC) and Artaxerxes I (464-425 BC) period. Islamic Republic of Iran.

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