Plate; "senmurv" (A mythical creature) in Sasanian art, 7th century, Bronze, Iran. (FreerSackler)
February 24, 2018 at 12:07AM
Silk Twill with Sasanian royal device SIMORḠ (=Senmurv) 224–651 AD. Iran/Persia. #Simorgh
"Zal and Simurgh" Folio from a #Shahnama (Book of Kings) Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020) in @metmuseum #Iran #Simorgh
SIMORḠ by #Persian Scholar, Abu Yahya Zakariya' ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (1203-1283). (Ajā'ib al-makhlūqāt) #Simorgh
| PLATE I. "The Simorḡ,” Marāḡa, 697 or 699/ca. 1297-1300, illustration from the Manāfeʿ-e ḥayawān. Courtesy of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Ms. M. 500, fol. 55r. |