Photo ID: GA0006
Site: Firuzabad
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Description: Amethyst seal from the reign of Ardashir I (AD 224-241), from Georgia, in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. The seal of a female bust, with the head turned to the right (on the impression), with the hair shown in tresses over the shoulders, and collected in a ball of hair, tied with a ribbon over a skull cap. The Pahlavi inscription identifies the seals owner and the image depicted as Denak, “queen of queens,” the sister and wife of Ardashir I.
Photo Source: Berghe, Louis vanden, "Splendeur de Sassanides", Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Bruxelles, 1993.
See Sasanian Sites for collection summary.
Sasanian Projects at UC Berkeley
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
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Last updated: November 8, 2001:jlz