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Sassanian plate with King defeating a Catafract, Azerbaijan Museum, Tabriz, Iran - Druzhina - 06-04-2016
Does anyone have information about this Sassanian plate with King defeating a Catafract, Azerbaijan Museum, Tabriz, Iran?
Is the catafract a Persian, Roman, Sarmatian, Parthian or other? Has it been dated?
Druzhina
Ancient Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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RE: Sassanian plate with King defeating a Catafract, Azerbaijan Museum, Tabriz, Iran - Decebalus - 06-04-2016
There is a paper about this plate here
[url=https://www.academia.edu/19610407/TABRIZ_MUSEUM_BATTLE_DISH._FORMAL_CONSIDERATIONS][/url]
RE: Sassanian plate with King defeating a Catafract, Azerbaijan Museum, Tabriz, Iran - Druzhina - 06-06-2016
Thanks Decebalus,
From the conclusion: "Most likely the plate was manufactured in late 1920s or 1930s in the time when Iranian national awareness received influence from the modern archaeological research."
Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
RE: Sassanian plate with King defeating a Catafract, Azerbaijan Museum, Tabriz, Iran - Renatus - 06-06-2016
It would be interesting to know when the museum acquired this plate and if it has any provenance. Also, if it has been published, when this first occurred.
RE: Sassanian plate with King defeating a Catafract, Azerbaijan Museum, Tabriz, Iran - Druzhina - 06-07-2016
Here are some images of the figures in the paper:
Fig. 4. Sassanid Rock Relief at Firusbad (Firuzabad, Firouzabad), Fars, Iran
Fig. 7. A Sasanian Cameo of Shapur I vanquishing Emperor Valerian, 260 AD, Cabinet des Médailles, Paris
Fig. 9. Nizhniaia Shakharovskaia plate, Shapur III, Sogdian, 7th century AD, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Fig. 10. Hormizd plate, A Sasanian King Hunting Lions, 5th-6th Century, The Cleveland Museum of Art 1962.150
Fig. 13. Kerchevoe plate, A Sasanian King Hunting Boar, 390-420s CE, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Fig. 17. Sasanian Plate with King Astride a Fallow Deer, 4th century AD, British Museum 124091
Fig. 18. Novo-Bayazet plate, A Sasanian King Hunting a Boar, a Bear, and a Lion, 7th Century AD, Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
The catafract on the Azerbaijan Museum Plate may be based on the Parthian catafract on the Sassanid Rock Relief at Firuzabad
Mirror site:
Silver Gilt Plate with Sassanid King defeating a Catafract, Azerbaijan Museum, Tabriz, Iran
Druzhina
Ancient Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers