…is a 6th century Sassanian silk textile — pre-Islamic Iran — from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is the culture that is essentially the aesthetic foundation and parent of our entire region, and I think it’s a sufficiently neutral one to not have anyone arguing about “whose” eagle that is.
One can only imagine what it looked like when t was first woven.
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Tags: Iran, Persia, Sasanian Iran, textiles
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