Ancient Persia
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 28 artefacts from Ancient Persia. These date from 2300 BC to 651 AD. This collection represents peoples such as the Guti, Kassites, Elamites, Medes, Achaemenid Persians, Parthians and Sasanians. From excavations at Haft Tepe, near the Elamite capital of Susa, there is a small collection dating to the 14th century BC, of human and animal figurines, bronze earrings and an awl and a pin. There is also a bronze nude figure similar in style to votive figurines from Susa, which dates to the Middle Elamite Period (1500–1100 BC). An Elamite archer and two Persian bowmen are represented in the collection of Neo-Assyrian gypsum reliefs. Three bronze vessels and two terracotta fragments are Achaemenid Persian, while from the Parthian Period (250 BC–224 AD) there is a nude female figurine made of bone, and a group of seven coins depicting Parthian rulers. Items of late Sasanian date (450–651 AD) include a sherd impressed with a rectangular stamp of a horned ox, part of a decorative frieze. Persia was the European name used for present day Iran until about 1935, and also refers to the series of historical empires that dominated the Iranian plateau, Central Asia and the Caucasus from 550 BC to the Arab Conquest in the 7th century AD.
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