Some #Sasanian Seals

Dude has more guts than Modi & Xi Jinping

Whatever he was blabbering now doing

He's literally like a Modern day Sasanian Monarch who has guts to strike back or face Romans ( Israel + USA)

Sasanian Winged Horse relief from Ctesiphon

Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 Michael Fakeman🇮🇱🎗️ Something like this from Sassanid era would work.
It almost looks exactly like that pattern and it’s just a shape instead of allah o akbar.
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Iranian glyptic: A feature shared from Sogdiana and Bactria to the western edges of the Sasanian world was a circular projection or knob on (some) seal rings

Photo: Sasanian seal with original gold ring, @ Hermitage ... ⤵️

Imagining Kushano-Sasanian Ardeshir اردشیر کوشانشاه based on beautiful coins. Coiled hair, bundled beard, and a magnificent crown. Map shows the territory of Kushanshahs in roughly the same period and may not be exact for this figure's domain.

Sasanian amethyst seal of Agn-vist, the mardbed ('head of inspectors/ auditors/ storekeepers' or 'chief accountant'), Inscription in Parthian, @ Hermitage

Bahram gur(406-438)great Sasanian king of ancient iran he was a warrior & his tales are mentioned in famous Shahnameh of Firdowsi.
His Descendent king khusrow(501-579)
is mentioned in the hikayats of guru gobind singh ji
Waryam Singh a Sikh name is direct version of Bahram.

Why did Muslims reject Greek philosophy whereas they embraced Sasanian thought after the 11th century?
Why are cultural relativism & postmodernism misleading while analyzing Islamists today?
How do patriarchy & autocracy require a cultural critique?
researchgate.net/publication/37…

Almandine Sasanian seal @ British Museum. Photo 2: published in 1791 (!), by Tassie & Raspe

Today in #history : Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. (240 CE). #OnThisDay

➡️ Read more: worldhistory.org/Shapur_I/
worldhistory.org/Ardashir_I/

Sasanian sealing excavated @ Tigranakert in Artsakh

2 Amethyst Sasanian Seals previously in the collection of the King of France. Presumably lost after the revolution. Published: Raspe-Tassie, 1791

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CONVINCING IRANIAN CAPABILITIES, DEMONSTRATED.
I was curious what they would do:
I firmly expected their hyper-sonic missiles.
And efforts of excellent scientists, technicians, planners,
chess players.
'Chess' was played as 'Shatranj' in the Sasanian Empire.
A good video.

Sassanian Plate with Winged Horses :

This gilded silver Sasanian plate features an unusual scene that borrows from Graeco-Roman prototypes and possibly Iranian ones as well. Two youths stand on platforms facing one another, each holding a staff and the reins of a winged horse,…

somhairle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇻🇺➰ Naked Brunch Lim The only way you can argue modern Iran is a direct continuation of Achaemenid or Sasanian empires is if you think modern Italy is a direct continuation of Ancient Rome.

Actually, bad example. Far more of Roman culture survived in Italy than pre-Islamic culture survived in Iran.

Did you think socialism is a fairly recent invention?
Here is king of Ērānšahr, a Zoroastrian priest (AD 498–531) whose rulings about property and ownership have been deemed proto-socialist. According to sources in Middle Persian of the late Sasanian Empire (AD 224–651), Mazdak…

in the near future, Iran and Turkey will reach an uneasy Molotov–Ribbentrop style Pact, launch a joint invasion of Israel, and then spend the next thousand year reenacting the Byzantine–Sasanian Wars

Roy Very true there were multiple conquests but even under Sasanian rule majority of population were same stock as 6thC BC when Ishtar gate was constructed and spoke Akkadian dialects (although I don’t know anything about the literacy rate). This only changed after Arab conquest.

Stone Bird head figure, Achaemenid or Sasanian, excavated @ Qasr-i Abu Nasr, @ met museum