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PERSEPOLIS GRAFFITI: FOREIGN VISITORS
These represent another phase in the transformation of the monuments from living palaces to evocative ruined memorials of the past, alongside the earlier systematic iconoclastic defacement of exposed human faces, the addition of Sasanian and Buyid drawings and inscriptions.
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ATABAY, CYRUS
(1929-1996), Iranian poet and translator who wrote poetry exclusively in German and translated works on Persian literature into German.