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Carpets evidently could reach a high level of sophistication, as the praise lavished on the lost royal Baharestan Carpet by the Muslim conquerors shows. But the only surviving fragments that might originate from Sasanid Persia are humbler productions, probably made by nomad tribes.
The Sasanians called their empire Eranshahr, the Empire of the Iranians. Much of the material culture that survives is court art, that is, luxury objects and royal monuments created and used by the empire’s ruling and elite strata of society.
The Sasanian Empire ( / səˈsɑːniən, səˈseɪniən /) or Sassanid Empire, officially known as Eranshahr ("Kingdom of the Iranians"), [9] [10] was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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A silver-gilt plate decorated with images of the Sasanian king Bahram V (Bahram Gur) and Azadeh ( 1994.402) is the earliest known representation of a story made famous in the Persian epic the Shahnama (Book of Kings) ( 57.51.32 ), a popular subject in the art of much later periods ( 57.36.2 ).
4 days ago · The first documented evidence on the existence of carpets came from Chinese texts dating back to the Sassanid Dynasty (224 - 641 CE). In 628 CE, the Emperor Heraclius brought back a variety of carpets from the conquest of Ctesiphon, the Sassanian capital.
Dec 15, 1990 · No pile carpet remains are extant from Persia before the Sasanian period, though fragments of Parthian wool textiles are common. Some pieces from tombs in the Germī region of eastern Azerbaijan, near the Soviet border, are reported to be colored blue, orange, brown, and cream and to include among their design repertory swastika motifs and ...
Dec 6, 2023 · The Sasanians called their empire Eranshahr, the Empire of the Iranians. Much of the material culture that survives is court art, that is, luxury objects and royal monuments created and used by the empire’s ruling and elite strata of society.
