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Young Iranian women from Kordestan tribes wearing traditional costumes.
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Piece of Sassanid textile found in Sogdia, decorated with two winged horses and heart emblem, which was widely used among Sassanid aesthetics. These hearts were interpreted as a symbol of love and royal bonding within the Sassanid kingdom.
Islamic museum art, Malaysia.
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Panther-headed throne arm with ram’s head and opium poppies aside, 7th c. BC.
Gold, amber, glass-paste, found at Kelermes mound, district of Adygea in Russia.
Hermitage museum, St Petersburg
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Around 800 years ago in Isfahan, Iran, a craftsman built a four-dial combination lock with over 4.2 billion possible combos — centuries ahead of its time.
Signed by astrolabe maker Muhammad ibn Hamid al-Asturlabi, it fused mechanical precision with striking artistry.
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Royal Achaemenid seal, blue chalcedony in a gold mount, 5th century BC.
Iranian king holding a bud guarded by the immortals.
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Sarmatian roundel decorated with triangle surrounded by griffin heads, from 1st–2nd century AD found in Astrakhan, Russia.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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17th century Emerald cup made of 252 carats of pure emerald with Persian verses inscribed on it, belonged to Mughal Emperor Jahangir Shah.
al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait
Mentioned poem:
“الهی بخت تو بیدار بادا

ترا دولت همیشه یار بادا

گل اقبال تو دائم شکفته

به چشم دشمنانت خار بادا”
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Glazed bowl, from Kashan, Iran, late 13th–mid-14th century.
Museum of fine arts, Houston
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Chahar Bagh mosque and college, 17th century in Isfahan, Iran.
By Pascal Coste,1840.
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Golestan plains, Iran.
By Mojtaba Saberi
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Sogdian silver plate, known as the Anikova dish, dated to the 7th-10th centuries CE, depicting a narrative scene, a dramatic duel between two knights.
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
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Sheath for three knives, from Tillya Tepe, 1st century A.D. Bronze, gold, turquoise (within the sheath is the iron blade of a dagger with a worked ivory handle).
Decorated with Swastika, Derafsh Kavian, heart shaped symbols and turquoises styling clovers around the golden dragons and goats on the sides.
National Museum of Afghanistan
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Elamite Ram Statue, 2nd Millennium BC, gold and silver, Discovered in Western Iran.
National museum of Iran
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Achaemenid coin, Satrap of Lydia governed by Trivazda (Greek: Tribazus) from 388-380 BC showing Zoroastrian symbol of Farvahar.
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Fragment of a Caftan, pretty inspired by the Sassanid art, from the Buyid period, 10th-11th Century.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
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Amethyst stamp-seal and bezel, belonged to Sassanid king, Bahram the IV circa 388-399 AD.
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Sassanid stucco bust, discovered at Tall-e Sefidak in Iran during excavations of a Sasanian palace. The bust displays fine craftsmanship, with neatly patterned curls in the hair and beard and a carefully modeled crown and cloth. Features of the lord's crown (spherical crowns and stepped edges) and the shape of the face match it with the Middle Sassanid kings likely Shapur II (r. 309–379 CE).
National Museum of Iran, Tehran
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