Hall of a Hundred Columns
تالار صدستونA forest of stone stems carrying the roof of a vanished hall.
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The story
Persepolis, Takht-e Jamshid, was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid kings, and one of its largest buildings is known as the Hall of a Hundred Columns. Today only bases, fragments and a few standing shafts remain, but the plan still reads as a grid of columns set in rows.
Persiahaus Studio stretched that grid across four canvases: a long run of fluted columns, each crowned with a double-bull capital, standing on a stepped platform beneath a heavy lintel band, with a low sun behind them. Hung in a row, the four panels make one continuous colonnade.