File:Standard of Cyrus the Great.svg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Original file (SVG file, nominally 500 × 500 pixels, file size: 61 KB)

Summary

Description
English: Standard of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Called the: Derafsh-e Shahbaz-e-Talayi or the Golden Falcon (Persian: درفش شاه‌باز طلایی).
  • The standard is described by Xenophon of Athens in Cyropaedia (Book VII, C.1) as: "...and the word went down the lines, "Eyes on the standard and steady marching!". The standard was a golden eagle, with outspread wings, borne aloft on a long spear-shaft, and to this day such is the standard of the Persian king." (however here he is describing Artaxerxes II's standard at Cunaxa).
Date
Source Own work, Based on: [1]
Author Sodacan
Other versions
  • Blue
    Blue
  • Golden Falcon
    Golden Falcon


Licensing

Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

Captions

Fantasy Flag of Cyrus

inception

20 October 2009

media type

image/svg+xml

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current02:43, 8 July 2024No thumbnail500 × 500 (61 KB)wikimediacommons>NoSeeNoByeReverted to version as of 04:50, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

The following 96 pages use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "http://70.231.62.181/index.php/File:Standard_of_Cyrus_the_Great.svg"