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An unfinished rock relief at Behistun is attributed to Husraw II. This 200 meters wide and 30 meters long rock relief stands a kilometer to the south Darius’s monumental rock relief. A wall of 150 meters supports the terrace. If complete, it would have been the largest royal rock relief in Iran.
Bibliography:
- Luschey, Heinz. “Bisutun: Geschichte und Forschungsgeschichte.” Archäologischer Anzeiger 89 (1974): 114–49.
- Salzmann, W. “Die Felsabarbeitung und Terrasse des Farhad in Bisutun ein Spat Sasanidisches Monument.” Archäologischer Anzeiger 91 (1976): 110.134.
- Mansouri, Seyed-Amir and Bahram Ajorloo. “Farhad Tarash in Bisotun: A Sample of Sassanid Landscape Architecture.” Bagh Nazar 5, no. 10 (2008): 49–68. (in Persian, PDF)
- Canepa, Matthew P. The Iranian Expanse: Transforming Royal Identity through Architecture, Landscape, and the Built Environment, 550 BCE–642 CE, Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2018. (page 363)
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