Sassanian Cultural Influence

[hjernespiser]

Does anyone have information about research done regarding the influence of Sassanian material culture upon western steppe cultures?

The "eagle lifting a woman" motif from the Nagyszentmiklos treasure (flickr.com/photos/louis_cypher/2755548313/) could be found in Sassanian art too (i.e., look at pg 3 of Sassanian Elite Cavalry AD 224-642 books.google.com/books?id=heaA2LijDVUC).

As I understand, a lot of pre-conquest Magyar stuff displays influence from the late Sassanian period as well.

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

Not surprising at all

Btw, according to İbrahim Kafesoğlu, the useage of crowns among Turkic rulers was most probably a Sāsānid influence.

[Azadan Januspar]

There are also much similarities between early Bulgar art and Sassanian as well. To be precise the similarities are not only Sassanian but Iranian art, actually the era of Sassanians saw an influential thriving in Iranian art accompanied by some foreign elements both of thousands of years, which made it a hot topic nowdays for researches. Iranian art during the Sassanids passed the Oxus which Sassanid suzernity hardly ever could. One of the persons working on this that I remember is Matteo Compareti of University of Napoli, who is working on Sassanid Art.

This site you may find useful:
www.transoxiana.org/Eran/

Also Sassanika Project promised to lead some specific researches on Art and Sassanian culture:
www.humanities.uci.edu/sasanika/

[hjernespiser]

As I understand, the impact of Sassanian culture lasted on the fringes of this empire well past its existence. The Huns are also shown to have been influenced by Sassanian art.

[H. İhsan Erkoç]

The small crown found at the Bilgä Qaġan Complex in Orkhon, Mongolia:

home.anadolu.edu.tr/~benkhbaatar/images/mongolia_historic_bilge_golden_crown.jpg


Depiction of a Turkic crown on Köl Tigin's statue:

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/tr/thumb/c/c0/Kul_Tigin.jpg/150px-Kul_Tigin.jpg


As Kafesoğlu pointed out before, such crown useage found among Turkic rulers is probably of Sassanid influence.