Roman Marble Bust Persian Woman McManus Galleries On History Visit To Dundee Tayside Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of a Roman marble bust of a Persian woman in McManus Galleries on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Dundee. Marble bust of a Persian woman, Roman, A.D. 100s, Villa Montalto, Rome. Although carved in a classical style, the Phrygian cap worn by this woman identifies her with the east. The carving most likely represents the personification of Persia rather than an individual. The Phrygian cap or liberty cap is a soft conical cap with the apex bent over, associated in antiquity with several peoples in Eastern Europe and Anatolia, including the Balkans, Dacia, Thrace and Phrygia, where the name originated. Although Phrygian caps did not originally function as liberty caps, they came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty first in the American Revolution and then in the French Revolution. The original cap of liberty was the Roman pileus, the felt cap of emancipated slaves of ancient Rome, which was an attribute of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. The Persian Empire is the name given to a series of dynasties centred in modern day Iran that spanned several centuries, from the sixth century B.C. to the twentieth century A.D. The first Persian Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great around 550 B.C., became one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Europe’s Balkan Peninsula in the West to India’s Indus Valley in the East. This Iron Age dynasty, sometimes called the Achaemenid Empire, was a global hub of culture, religion, science, art and technology for more than 200 years before it fell to the invading armies of Alexander the Great. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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