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Persepolis functioned not merely as an administrative center, but as a carefully designed visual machine and monumental theater that materialized abstract Iranian concepts of royal legitimacy and divine favor (Farr) into an experience of sacred spectacle. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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The study investigates how ancient Iranian sovereignty transformed abstract concepts of sacred glory (Farr) into physical forms through the monumental architecture of Persepolis and the mythological traditions of Jamshid.

August 27, 2026Open Access

Architecture of Sovereignty and the Semiotics of Farr: Persepolis as a Site of the Visibility of Power.

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MGMaryam Gomizi

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Archaeological and semiotic analysis reveals how Persepolis materialized divine kingship through monumental architecture and mythology, highlighting the visual construction of political authority.

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The study investigates how ancient Iranian sovereignty transformed abstract concepts of sacred glory (Farr) into physical forms through the monumental architecture of Persepolis and the mythological traditions of Jamshid.
Integrated interdisciplinary frameworks combining art history, archaeology, semiotics, mythology, visual culture studies, and the phenomenology of space.
Analyzed archaeological evidence, decorative arts, precious materials, relief sculptures, and historical literary traditions relating Persepolis to Iranian royal ideology.
Identified Persepolis as a ceremonial visual machine that engineered distance, hierarchy, and visibility to project royal legitimacy and cosmic order rather than operating merely as an administrative center.
Demonstrated that architectural design and relief sculpture materialized invisible sacred concepts like divine favor (Khvarenah) through aesthetic staging and ritual spectacle.
Documented how collective cultural memory integrated the physical ruins into Iranian mythology by linking Persepolis directly to the legendary throne of Jamshid.

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Maryam Gomizi (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8fea1c10c91c1e926223e4 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22101087

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Archaeological and semiotic analysis reveals how Persepolis materialized divine kingship through monumental architecture and mythology, highlighting the visual construction of political authority.

Architecture of Sovereignty and the Semiotics of Farr: Persepolis as a Site of the Visibility of Power.

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Architecture of Sovereignty and the Semiotics of Farr: Persepolis as a Site of the Visibility of Power.

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