Title

Sassanian Silver-Gilt Dish of Goddess and Bird, 6th-7th century. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

Sassanian Silver-Gilt Dish of Goddess and Bird, 6th-7th century. The Sasanian Empire known to its inhabitants as Eranshahr, was the last period of the Persian Empire (Iran) before the rise of Islam, named after the House of Sasan who ruled from 224 to 651 AD. At Hermitage Museum, Leningrad

Date

500th century

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/CM Dixon

Reference

HRM19B84_089

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,5Mb (2,5Mb) / 13,8in x 14,2in / 4150 x 4252 (300dpi)

Keywords

religious bird birds country religion museum color colour deity God crockery location dish century Iran Iranian artefact artifact goddess Persian Persia Hermitage Museum 20th century CM Dixon 6th century 7th century silver gilt silver-gilt TGN object Unknown silver Sassanian Dixon CM CM Dixon Mike Dixon CM Dixon silver object