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	Naqsh-e Rustam: probably the tomb of Xerxes			Naqsh-e Rustam: stone tower - Ka'bah-i Zardusht - Zarathustra's kaaba - square structure built of blocks of white hewn limestone
	Naqsh-e Rustam: triumph relief of Sasanian king Shapur I, near the tomb of Darius I - with defeated Roman emperors Valerian and Philippus the Arab at his feet			Naqsh-e Rustam: relief - lines of Persian subdits - tomb attributed to Xerxes - relief
	Naqsh-e Rustam: probably the tomb of Xerxes - ocher-colored cliffs of the Husain Kuh mountain range			Naqsh-e Rustam: necropolis - left to right - tombs of Darius II, Artaxerxes I, Darius I - tombs are known locally as the 'Persian crosses', after the shape of the facades
	Naqsh-e Rustam: tomb attributed to Artaxerxes I Makrocheir			Naqsh-e Rustam: tomb attributed to Darius II Nothus and Bahram II relief
	Naqsh-e Rustam: tomb attributed to Artaxerxes I Makrocheir - from below			Naqsh-e Rustam: equestrian victory of Hormizd II over king Papak of Armenia - below the tomb attributed to Artaxerxes I Makrocheir - Sassanian age
	Naqsh-e Rustam: triumph relief of Shapur I - the king's face			Naqsh-e Rustam: investiture of Narseh relief - female figure
	Naqsh-e Rustam: releif above the tomb attributed to Artaxerxes I Makrocheir			Naqsh-e Rustam: cliffs and the tomb attributed to Xerxes
	Naqsh-e Rustam: cliffs and tomb attributed to Darius II Nothus			Naqsh-e Rustam: equestrian victory monument of Bahram II - horses heads
	Naqsh-e Rustam: tomb attributed to Artaxerxes I Makrocheir - cliff face			Naqsh-e Rustam: equestrian victory monument of Bahram II, below the tomb of Darius I the Great - Sassanian age
	Naqsh-e Rustam: Ka'bah-i Zardusht - Zarathustra's kaaba and the Achaemenian necropolis			Naqsh-e Rustam: rock hewn tombs of the Achaemenid kings - hypogea - from left to right - tombs of Darius II Nothus, Artaxerxes I Makrocheir, Darius I the Great, the relief of the investiture of Narseh, tomb of Xerxes
	Naqsh-e Rustam: cross - probably the tomb of Xerxes - relief shows Xerxes in front of the altar, praying to Ahuramazda and sacrificing to the holy fire.jpg			Naqsh-e Rustam: entrance the the tomb attributed to Darius II Nothus
	Naqsh-e Rustam: relief above the tomb attributed to Darius II Nothus			Naqsh-e Rustam: Equestrian relief of Bahram II, below tomb of Darius II Nothus - his enemy wears a Roman helmet and may be an emperor
	Naqsh-e Rustam: investiture of Narseh, son of the great Shapur I - the king receives the cydaris ring from a female figure			Naqsh-e Rustam: stone tower - Ka'bah-i Zardusht - Zarathustra's kaaba and the cliffs