The Sasanian Empire, officially Ērānšahr, was the last empire of ancient Iran. Named after the House of Sasan, it endured for over four centuries, from 224 to 6...
Sasanian coinage was produced within the domains of the Iranian Sasanian Empire (224–651). Together with the Roman Empire, the Sasanian Empire was the most impo...
Sasanian art, or Sassanid art, was produced under the Sasanian Empire which ruled from the 3rd to 7th centuries AD, before the Muslim conquest of Persia was com...
A green-blue glaze covers the jar’s exterior and its interior is coated with bitumen. Two concentric bands encircle the neck. Ceramics glazed in green, blue-green, and yellow were produced in Mesopotamia and southwest Iran during the Sasanian period
This small bone object has incised concentric circles around its inner and outer edges with smaller circles incised on its rounded top-side. The reverse of the object is flat. This object may have been used as a button or may be a spindle whorl
Introduction The Sasanian Empire was the last great pre-Islamic empire of Iran whose rule spread through the length of late antiquity. In this capacity, the Sasanian Empire was also the major foe and political rival of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the west, as well as that of the Kushans in its early history.…
A Sasanian character in the center.
By 1936, Hagop K. Kevorkian, New York; on loan by Hagop K. Kevorkian to the Fogg Art Museum from April 9, 1936 – August 10, 1936; acquired by the Museum in 1940, gift of Hagop K. Kevorkian, New York.
مینوی خرد پاسخ داد که چیزهای گیتی (مادی) در آغاز آفرینش چنان راست قسمت شده بود که چیزهای مینو. و آفریدگار اورمزد همه نیکی این آفریدگار را به عهده ی مهر و ماه و آن دوازده برج که در دین دوازده سپاهبد نامیده شده اند، سپرد و آنان نیز به راستی و سزاوارانه قسمت کردن آن را از اورمزد پذیرفتند.(بخشی کتاب پهلوی مینوی خرد) دو بز کوهی و دخت مو، گچ بری، دوره ساسانیان، سده 6 ترسایی، 41.3 در 46.3 سانتیمتر A Sasanian Stucco Plaque, circa 6th Century A.D. molded in high relief with two confronted leaping ibexes feeding from a tree-like vine of grapes. 46.3 by 41.3 cm.
Bowl with female busts in medallions
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Wall panel with a charging boar ca. 6th century A.D. Sasanian, Stucco
1933–34, excavated under the direction of J.M. Upton, W. Hauser and C.K. Wilkinson on behalf of The Persian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; acquired by the Museum in 1934, ceded in the division of finds
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