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Post by Druzhina on Jul 27, 2016 9:01:44 GMT 3
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jul 27, 2016 13:00:19 GMT 3
Interesting piece. I feel like it is more like in Sassanid style.
By the way, if it's from the early 11th century, it might have belonged to the Ghaznavids. Indeed the style of clothing of the figures look Turkic.
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Post by Temüjin on Jul 28, 2016 11:27:16 GMT 3
indeed this looks clearly Sassanian to me, not sure how they came up with the 11th century.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jul 28, 2016 12:27:04 GMT 3
Probably because of the Turkic costumes?
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Post by Temüjin on Jul 28, 2016 22:14:23 GMT 3
isn't that a general nomadic costume worn since Scythian times? IDK, but the crown is clearly Sassanian. maybe the Sassanian influence remained longer in Afghanistan. parts of Afghanistan only became Muslim through Saffarid and Ghaznavid conquest.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jul 29, 2016 10:34:12 GMT 3
The coats and boots look different than the Scythian-Sarmatian-Kushanite-Parthian styles and they are closer to the Turkic dresses of 6th-13th centuries, if I recognize correctly. But the crown looks Sassanid indeed.
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Post by Druzhina on Jul 30, 2016 8:15:09 GMT 3
The crown probably doesn't match any known crown of Sassanid kings. See Plates with figures from Persia and Central Asia (and bowls, cups, cameos, plaques, paintings and textiles with similar iconography).A bench throne supported by animals are found on Sassanid illustrations: Strelka dish of Khusrau I with his Court, 6th century AD, Hermitage Museum, St. PetersburgCup of Khusrau I, 6th century AD, Bibliothèque Nationale de FranceA Sassanid (or Islamic) Oval Bowl with Enthronement Scene, 7th Century AD, Walters Art GalleryA Sassanid (or Islamic) Bowl with Enthronement Scene, Qazvin, c.7th Century AD, Iran Bastan Museum, TehranThis has been imitated in an Umayyad textile with a Sasanian King, Iran or Central Asia, 7th-8th century, David Collection Museum, Copenhagen and on a Sasanian, Kushano-Sasanian or Hephthalite Plate, 4th century AD, British Museum 123093So the plate is probably partially imitating a Sasanian scene, but the clothing is Central Asian (with lapels like Kizil cave, Tarim Basin, donor figures rather than Sasanian. There are halos around the heads like a Cup with horseman, Khwarezm, c. 7th to beginning of the 8th Century, Hermitage Museum, St. PetersburgDruzhina Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers
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