Sasanian Seals & Glyptic Project: Sharing my collection of images of excavated and well provenanced seals (link in ALT text), divided by country /region & at times site

It was confiscated in 2019. published in a brief report in 2020: "САСАНИДСКАЯ СЕРЕБРЯНАЯ АША ИЗ СОБРАНИЯ НАЦИОНАЛЬНОГО МУЗЕЯ РЕСПУБЛИКИ АДЫГЕЯ": Interesting for the Alanic sign on the back as well. Circumstances of seizure make me think it's genuine

3: Seven Brothers' Tumuli (rock crystal and gold)

RT @PersiaAntigua: Parthian era drawings from Mansur-depe, Turkmenistan

RT @PersiaAntigua: Early Sasanian ossuary fragment from Merv necropolis

@PuerAchaemenius 🥺

@mclo_Bridger from bitumen

RT @PersiaAntigua: Love the bitumen vessels from ~ 2000 BCE from Iran: 1: Chogha Mish; 2-4: Susa, among other examples

RT @PersiaAntigua: 1: Pre-Achaemenid find, early Iron Age Tortoise carapace & pick, Jafar Abad and Tu Ali Sofla, East Azerbaijan, Iran ⤵️…

Some of the Achaemenid material from Chogha Mish, Iran. helpful is the bronze bowl with typical Achaemenid shape

Early Sasanian ossuary fragment from Merv necropolis

@RNishapur No

RT @PuerAchaemenius: Briant, Pierre. 2025. Sur les traces de l’empire des Grands Rois: Enquête historiographique (1931-2023). Paris: Les Be…

@eranudturan close to the Sasanian barbat, and those are specifically of the quxiang pipa. The ones depicted in Sogdiana aren't super clear to me and one is in the context of "Chinese musicians". I think all are still from later and 7 or later centuries if I'm not mistaken?