The Royal Hunter: Art of the Sasanian Empire

animal appears Bahram Bahram IV birds Bishapur Bivar bowl British Museum bronze Brunner bust carved Central Asia century A.D. color crown Ctesiphon decoration diameter Dura-Europos early Islamic early Sasanian East Eastern eighth century example excavated female figures fourth century Fukai Ghirshman glass goddess griffin head Hephthalites Hormizd Hormizd II horse inscription Iran Iranian Kavad Kish Kröger late Sasanian Louvre male Mesopotamia Metropolitan Museum Middle Persian motifs Museum of Art Notes palmettes Parthian pearl roundels Peroz Persian Art plaque probably representations rhyton rock reliefs Roman royal s-spun Sackler Sasanian art Sasanian Empire Sasanian Iran Sasanian king Sasanian period Sasanian seals Sasanian silver Sasanidischer sassanides Selected Bibliography senmurw seventh century Height Shapur Shapur II silver plate silver vessels Silver-gilt sixth Stamp Seals stucco style stylized Survey of Persian Susa sword Taq-i Bostan Textile fragment third century vase vine scroll warp weft wheel-cut wings Zoroastrian