JCH308854 Relief outside the grottoes depicting the investiture of King Ardeshir II (379-383), from the Sassanian grottoes of Taq-e Bostan (photo) by Sasanian School, (4th century); Taq-e Bostan, Iran; (add.info.: Constructed between the 4th and 7th centuries A.D., they contain relief carvings of several Sassanian kings; The King stands in the centre standing over the fallen figure of a Roman soldier (or Ahriman, god of evil) and receiving the royal crown from the hands of the Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda on the right; Mithra is shown standing on the left holding the sacred barsom which symbolises the power of nature; Photographed 2002; Sasanian King-Emperor receiving from the hands of the most Supreme God of Iranian Antiquity, Ormazd, the Imperial Key of Office while Mithras, the Invincible Sun God and God of Oaths is in attendance holding the imperial Sword of Rule); 穢 Julian Chicester; Iranian, out of copyright.