Gilded silver plate from the Sasanian Empire, depicting youths with winged horses. The iconography
Gilded silver plate from the Sasanian Empire, depicting youths with winged horses. The iconography is adapted from Greco-Roman depictions of the Dioscuri. Artist unknown; 5th/6th cent. CE From Iran; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons. -- source link
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