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Rare Original 19th c. Engraving Template WEDDING OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND STATEIRA After Andreas Müller - Original 19th c. Steel Engraved Plate for WEDDING OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND STATEIRA (Wedding of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) and Stateira in Susa, 324 BC); After a Painting by German Artist Andreas Johann Jacob Heinrich Müller (1811-1890) (Dusseldorf school of painting) | Plate template used in producing an engraved illustration for La Ilustración Artística, 1882 | Depicting the marriages of Alexander the Great to Stateira; and Hephaistion to Stateira's sister, Drypetis, at Susa | The Susa wedding was a mass wedding arranged by Alexander of Macedon in 324 BC in the Persian city of Susa. More Information: Alexander intended to symbolically unite the Persian and Greek cultures, by taking a Persian wife himself and celebrating a mass wedding with Persian ceremony along with his officers, for whom he arranged marriages with noble Persian wives. The union was not merely symbolic, as their prospective offspring were intended to be the children of both civilizations.