Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nowruz Zoroastrian.jpg

Bas-relief in Persepolis

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Original – Bas-relief in Persepolis – a symbol Iranian/Persian Nowruz – on the day of an equinox, the power of an eternally fighting bull (personifying the Earth) and that of a lion (personifying the Sun) are equal.

Reason

HQ + EV

Articles in which this image appears

Achaemenid Empire + Achaemenid architecture + Lion and Sun + March equinox + Nowruz + Persepolis+ Relief

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Sculpture

Creator

Anatoly Terentiev

• Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 06:17, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support - It's nice to have a relief as useful as this. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:52, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support Excellent photograph, the stairs in the upper right of the image add some depth and scale unobtrusively. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 10:29, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support Equal or not, I think the bull is getting the worst of it. Belle (talk) 10:35, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Per Adam (again!). Is there a date estimate available? Maybe 4th or 5th Century BCE? (And can we shorten the nom title please?) Sca (talk) 13:55, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support, and what a relief. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:22, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Excellent image.--Godot13 (talk) 23:28, 25 June 2015 (UTC) Is there any chance of fixing the CA?

^{You mean circa? Sca (talk) 13:21, 29 June 2015 (UTC)}

• Chromatic aberration — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:30, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

• Support – Yann (talk) 21:48, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support -Jobas (talk) 01:29, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support __ Thanks.  Qian Nivan  Talking        11:12, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
• Support -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 19:06, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Nowruz Zoroastrian.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:21, 5 July 2015 (UTC)