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Sasanian Plate with Youths and Winged Horses in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010

Sasanian Plate with Youths and Winged Horses in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
Title: Plate with youths and winged horses

Period: Sasanian

Date: A.D. 5th–6th century

Geography: Iran

Medium: Silver, mercury gilding

Dimensions: H. 5.2 x Diam. 21 cm, 572g (2 1/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Classification: Metalwork-Vessel

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1963

Accession Number: 63.152

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Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/ancien...

The scene is modeled on Graeco-Roman images of the Dioscuroi, Castor and Pollux. In Zoroastrian religion, stars were believed to produce rain, and the representation on this Sasanian plate may be the constellation called Two Figures.

Text excerpted from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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