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HUhhhh!!!! for shame for shame!!! Golleeeeee!!



What is the history behind it???



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Where are these located?
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Isfahan, I think it is either Seljuk or Safavid.
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Did the Safavids build large statues like the Seljuks did?
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        You don't see that every day!
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        Anyways, I thought Islam discouraged nudity.
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Those are the female pillars in 17th century safaviad persia(isfahan) they belong to the palace of chel sutoon or the palace of forty columns. It is also implied that the holes in their mouths were used for fire displays symbolizing that the king was in his palace.
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Is it possible the statue is left over from an earlier era, and a noble with a liberal attitude chose to keep it for a decoration, rather than destroy it?  The style and subject look a little Sassanian to me.
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It can't be so much old.



Sassanid winged figures on entrance to large ivan of Taq Bostan in Kermanshah


Seljuk sculpture, with a flattened back was used as decoration on the walls of a Seljuk palace in Isfahan



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it doesnt look Islamic,

i also thought that it was from a earlier period, perhaps perserved by the latter islamic dynasties.

didnt the Zarostarians also believe in Angelic beings?
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well... He said Sassanid, so it is from an earlier period. Yes, Zoroastrians believed in angels.

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