Relief depicting a cupbearer, from the Palace of Xerxes I,

ca. 486–465 BCE

Removed from the Palace of Xerses, Persepolis, by 1933 [1]. [Possibly, E. Sassoon, Paris [2]]. [Stora, Paris and New York, stock no. 8508 RES [3]]. Acquired in Paris and imported to the US by Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965), Cambridge (MA), ca. 1933-1945 [4]; [purchased by Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York (NY), July 1945]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, May 1949.

[1] In a 1933 photograph of the palace, the relief was already missing.

[2] The Sassoon brothers sold fragments from Persepolis to both Brummer and Stora in the early 1930s.

[3] The inventory number is painted in red on the upper left edge of the relief.

[4] The provenance from the collection of Paul J. Sachs is noted in "The Notable Art Collection Belonging to the Estate of the Late Joseph Brummer, Parke-Bernet Galleries (New York), May 1949, Part II, no. 138. According to an expertise in the museum files, a "paper Parisian customs stamp" survived with the fragment until it arrived in Princeton. Sachs taught in Paris in 1932-1933.

• Donald N. Wilber, "A relief from Persepolis", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 9, no. 2 (1950): p. 2-3.

• Frances Follin Jones, "The Princeton Art Museum: antiquities received in recent years", Archaeology 7, no. 4 (Dec., 1954): p. 237-243., p. 239
• F. F. Jones and R. Goldberg, Ancient art in the Art Museum: Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960)., p. 20, 21 (illus.)
• Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 29 (illus.)