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(7) MANICHAEISM

The cosmic duality of good and evil

Manichaeism was a former major religion, named for its founder, the prophet Mani in the Persian Sasanian Empire in the third century

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2023-03-14

Heraclius (c.575-641)
Was the Eastern Roman emperor from 610 to 641, taking power after deposing Emperor Phocas. His reign was marked by several military campaigns, reconquering lands taken by the Sasanian Persians but soon losing them to the emerging Rashidun Caliphate

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2023-03-03

Shirin, an Armenian Iranian queen.She was the Sasanian king Khosrow's mistress. Khosro sees Shirin for the first time in a water fountain while swimming. This illustration is famous in Persian literature. The love story of Khosro and Shirin is from Nizami's poems.

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2022-12-26

One of the more interesting (for me) finds from recent years is the find of an almost complete costume from the Sasanian era from the Chehrabad Salt Mines in Northern Iran. The set consists of a cotton tunic, wool shorts, wool and cotton leggings, and leather boots

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2022-09-20

Purple guy brought his Sasanian friend asking for Jimin photocards and BT21 merchandise today😭😭😭 https://t.co/meyJz0Jdna

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2021-11-30

PARCEL GILT SILVER DISH
C5TH-6TH CENTURY AD 9 ½in diam
Est: £10,000/15,000

SILVER BEAKER
c.2500-1500 BC 4 11/16in high
Est: £30,000/50,000

GOLD BULL PENDANT
c.2550-2250 BC 1.5in high
Est: £GBP 70,000/90,000

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2021-06-16

🇺🇿 The Uzbek section of the corridor finishes with two Sogdian settlements: Varakhsha and Paikend, the former known for its impressive murals (📷, Hermitage Museum) which combine Sogdian traditions with Indian, Sasanian, Umayyad motives 8/12

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2021-02-05

This is a pair of gilt-silver boar heads with a spout (presumably there were 38-48 more in the entire set) with an inscription naming a certain Pērōz Gušnasp, presumably the owner

They’re described as rhyta, but I don’t think they are

https://t.co/2UqwCj9mN4

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2020-08-26

How to make sense of the juxtaposition of a quintessential Chinese tombstone & a funerary couch turned into a Sasanian-style gilt vessel? My conclusion: An Jia saw himself as a mediator between Chinese & Sasanian cultures; he celebrated this dual identity with remarkable stones.

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2019-10-05

ONLY 10 DAYS LEFT KLAXON! The Lancaster Cross, Krishna, Ekanamsa, and Sasanian Persian silk all in the same space, among an array of star objects illustrating how Late Antique religious art developed through interactions

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2018-02-08