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title: Achaemenid Woman
author: The Trustees of the British Museum
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11807/achaemenid-woman/
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license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
updated: 1970-01-01
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# Achaemenid Woman
_Authored by The Trustees of the British Museum_
## Image File
[](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/11807.jpg)
## Image Caption
[Gold](https://www.worldhistory.org/gold/) fitting depicting a woman wearing a Persian robe and diadem. 6th-4th century BCE, Iran.
## Cite This Work
### APA
Museum, T. T. o. t. B. (2020, January 30). Achaemenid Woman. *World History Encyclopedia*.
### Chicago
Museum, The Trustees of the British. "Achaemenid Woman." *World History Encyclopedia*, January 30, 2020. .
### MLA
Museum, The Trustees of the British. "Achaemenid Woman." *World History Encyclopedia*, 30 Jan 2020, .
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