Shatranj - Wikipedia

I guess world politics make this a great time to discuss the #HistoryOfChess

Or #Shatranj

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Persian: شطرنج, pronounced [ʃaˈtˤrandʒ] from #MiddlePersian #chatrang is an old form of chess as played in the #Sasanian Empire. Origins lie in the Indian game of #chaturanga

Islamic: Arab-Sasanian - 1/2 Drachm – Tabaristan – Date blunderred; 780-790 AD

🚨Another awesome coin put up!

Tabaristan - 1/2 Drachm - Anonymous "APZWT"

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Wild Boar silver-gilt rhyton
Sasanian Empire
600 CE

A rhyton is a ritual drinking vessel.
The Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) was the last pre-Islamic Persian empire. Zoroastrianism was the state religion. Conquered by Arab-Muslim invaders in 651 CE.

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Red covered monograph. Macuch, Maria. 2025. Sasanian Law in Its Social Context. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

So, Harrassowitz didn't send me a shipping notification, and USPS never gave me a failed delivery notice, but this is at last in my hands a few weeks late!
This monograph is a wonderful 880 page, 1.6kg brick, and my Winter Break ends tomorrow, but I'll do my best...
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Suffice it to say I was super jazzed to find a drachm depicting the king alone. I've discussed the "dynastic" coinage of Wahrām at some length in another post. Wahrām's are certainly among the most beautifully engraved Sasanian coins.

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Die for reverse of drachm of Khusro II, regnal year 11 (600/01), YZ (Yazd) mint. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett 18201599. https://id.smb.museum/object/2354417/m%C3%BCnztechnik-pr%C3%A4gestempel-sasaniden

Die for reverse of drachm of Khusro II, regnal year 15 (604/5), AW (Hormizd-Ardashir) mint. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Münzkabinett 18204574. https://id.smb.museum/object/2357057/m%C3%BCnztechnik-pr%C3%A4gestempel-sasaniden

I wonder if this reform may somehow be related to the survival of two Sasanian coin dies (RY 11 and RY 15) supposedly found near Mosul, which are now housed in the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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Silver Sasanian drachm. Obverse depicting beardless king in high winged mural crown, in round border surrounded by crescents and stars at 3h, 6h, and 9h. Middle Persian text (R) yzdkt ("Yazdgard"), (L) afzut GDH ("[May his] glory increase!").

Silver Sasanian drachm. Reverse depicting fire altar flanked by two attendants, in double ring border surrounded by crescents and stars at 3h, 6h, 9h, and 12h. Middle Persian inscriptions (R) SK (mintmark "Sakastan"), (L) y'zdh ("eleven").

Additions to my teaching collection of ancient coins from the NYINC yesterday.

First up is this drachm of Yazdgard III (632–51), the last Sasanian King of Kings, dated RY 11 and minted in Sakastān (SK).
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#14thICAANE Lyon today and our workshop on #Sasanian archaeology landscapes, ceramics, fire temples and brass this morning

One particularly interesting group of ostraca were found at Chāl Ṭarkhān-ʿEshqābād, just south of modern Tehran, in 1936.📍The site was near #Rayy, an important late #Sasanian and early #Islamic city.

That gorgeous Sasanian silver plate that catches your eye walking through the museum...

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More details of this FANTASTIC piece tomorrow!

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"World Order in #LateAntiquity: The 'Two Eyes' Rivalry of #Byzantium and #Sasanian #Persia"
de Kevin Blachford.
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Sure, everyone has heard of Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and probably a dozen more....But have you heard of Manichaeism? Probably not. One of the worlds major religions at the time of the rise of Christianity. #religion #history #AncientBlueSky #sasanian

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Obverse and reverse of silver Arab-Sasanian drachm. Obverse features bust of king, facing right. Reverse, fire altar, flanked by attendants. CNG Islamic Auction 8 Pre-reform issues, Arab-Sasanian. ‘Abdallah b. al-Zubayr. Rival caliph, AH 60-73 / AD 680-692. AR Drachm (30.3mm, 3.49 g, 3h). KRMAN-NAR (Narmashir) mint. Dated AH 67 (AD 686/7). Obverse margin: — / bism Allah BPLWY / — / —. Malek, Arab-Sasanian 743-4; Album 15. Edge chip broken and re-attached. With lillah countermark in obverse margin. https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-FR8E4N/

This Arab-Sasanian drachm of ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Zubayr has a curious inscription. On the obverse margin, after the Arabic بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ (bismallah) is a Middle Persian word transliterated as bplwy. Many of ibn al-Zubayr's coins have variants of bpl/bplw/bplwy/bplwyn on them. 1/
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Rider, facing right, wearing caftan and trousers with solar nimbus, trailing ribbons, holding aloft two antlers, riding stag, facing right, bereft of antlers.

Any speculation about what's going on here? Did he rip the antlers off of the stag he's riding?!? Seems pretty cold, if so.

Sasanian or Post-Sasanian stucco plaque excavated at Rayy (Chal Turkhan), Iran in 1936.
Boston MFA acc. no. 39.490
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King, facing right, with bow and elaborate outfit, hairstyle, and headgear. Riding horse, facing left. Bear attacking from right. Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Johannes Kramer

Pretty. Sasanian stucco panel with king (?) fighting bear, possibly from Seleucia-Ctesiphon. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst, inv. no. I. 4424.

Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Johannes Kramer
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Silver sasanian bowl with band featuring odd sea animals. Photograph from: https://id.smb.museum/object/3028457/silberschale-sasanidisch

Goofy fish.

Google-eyed crustacean.

Pair of goofy fish

I love this Sasanian bowl with its absurd looking sea animals, formerly in the collection of the Museum für Islamische Kunst (inv. no. I. 2657). Evidently it was stolen in 1922.
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Close up of silver drachm of Wahrām II (276–293 CE) showing queen with animal headed crown or kolāh.

Out of curiosity, what does this animal look like to you all? #numismatics #sasanian

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Notable Event:
- 590: Hormizd IV, king of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown and blinded by his brothers-in-law Vistahm and Vinduyih.
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Plate (identified as King Shapur II hunting boar), 4th century C.E. (Sasanian, Iran), silver and gilt, 5 x 24 cm (National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)

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Roman scutum: An 1,800-year-old shield dropped by a Roman soldier who likely died in battle A wood and leather shield dating to around A.D. 250 is one of only a few complete Roman scuta ever found.

"The #Romans made Dura-Europos part of their empire in A.D. 165, using it as an eastern trading post. But the city was abandoned in A.D. 256 after being besieged by soldiers from the #Sasanian Empire of ancient #Iran."

And now Iran has abandoned #Assad

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1/2 #Sasanian #portrait clothing and pose references.

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🎬 The Sasanian silver vessel at the heart of the #GallowayHoard is on loan from National Museums Scotland to The British Museum's stunning #SilkRoads exhibition.

Images: Annemarie Franz
Video: Dr. Tom Horne

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