DOKKĀN-E DĀWŪD (lit., “shop of David”), rock-cut tomb of the Achaemenid period in the Zagros range a few kilometers southeast…

DEH-E NOW, site of a group of four rock-cut tombs of the 4th-3rd centuries B.C.E., located about 25 km south…

DĀ O DOḴTAR (lit., “Mother and daughter,” translated by Herzfeld as “The Nurse and the prin­cess”), an important rock-cut tomb,…

HERZFELD, ERNST iii. HERZFELD AND PERSEPOLIS Herzfeld first visited Persepolis in November 1905 during his return from the Assur excavation…

KARAFTO CAVES, an ensemble of artificially cut rock chambers with a Greek inscription, dated to the 4th or 3rd century…

NAQŠ-e ROSTAM, a perpendicular cliff wall on the southern nose of the Ḥosayn Kuh in Fārs, about 6 km northwest…