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The Apadana staircase in Dariush the Great's Hall of Audience, Persepolis, is best divided into three portions, a central, a northern and a southern panel. [...].
Some sections of [the southern panel] are artistically more advanced than others while some are not polished or even completed. The details of dress and the characterization of animals is unusually excellent. Artistically one of the best is panel 8, the Cilicians with the two fat-tailed rams.
realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Misc/Elam/Persepo...
FYI:
Fat-tailed sheep
Fat tailed or fat-rumped sheep are so-named because they can store large amounts of fat in the tail and region of the rump. Fat-tailed sheep are found mostly in the extremely arid regions of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. They often produce wool, but are raised primarily for meat or milk production. Fat-tailed sheep comprise 25 percent of the world's sheep population.
www.sheep101.info/sheeptypes.html
Upon the defeat of the Persian Empire by the Macedonian King Alexander the Great in 330 B.C. Persepolis was plundered, and the palace of the then Persian King Xerxes, was burned. [...].
What's left of the palace is marked by a large terrace [...] on the west side of [which] is the magnificent double stairs of Apadana. [on which] are relief's of Persian, Median, and Elamite officials.
Additionally, there are twenty three scenes, separated by cypress trees, depicting representatives from the twenty three vassal kingdoms of the empire. They are being led by a Persian or Mede, as they come to [make] offerings to the king at the festival of the vernal equinox. The various delegates are shown in great detail, giving insight into the costume and equipment of the various peoples of the Persian Empire in the 5th century B.C. But, there is NO inscription to identify who these people are!
www.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/far/hobbies/iran/persepolis.html
