And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, June 20, 2026
Cypress tree frieze motifs along the remains of the staircase at Apadana Palace (Persepolis, modern-day Iran); constructed approximately 515 B.C.
Shown are elongated, tapered cones like a pine tree. Cypress cones are round and much smaller. The branches of cypress do not grown in the manner shown. Even if the motif is styleized, is more resembles a pine than a cypress. Species of pine did then and does now grow in the region.
Shown are elongated, tapered cones like a pine tree. Cypress cones are round and much smaller.
ReplyDeleteThe branches of cypress do not grown in the manner shown. Even if the motif is styleized, is more resembles a pine than a cypress.
Species of pine did then and does now grow in the region.
For Christ’s sake it’s a 2500 year old piece of art and you find fault with it, what a fucking dildo!
ReplyDeleteSurprised it has not been destroyed by Islam because its pre Mohammed.
ReplyDeleteStunning artwork, the labor went into creating it, how its survived too.
ReplyDeleteHey, Anon 8:02 pm…chill out.. the pine/cypress comments are valid…whoever creates the headings for these pictures has been wrong before…
ReplyDeleteThose trees look more like cedars to me. - Nemo
ReplyDeleteThey are Christmas Trees.
ReplyDeleteDude is checking out his idea for the the Bryer’s Ice Cream logo.
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