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ANCIENT SASANIAN POTTERY BLACK BULLAE WITH BERIBBONED RAM

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ANCIENT SASANIAN POTTERY BLACK BULLAE WITH BERIBBONED RAM
VERY RARE ANCIENT SASANIAN BLACK POTTERY BULLA WITH BERIBBONED RAM 4TH-7TH CENTURY, with the seal impression of a beautiful horned Ram with a crecent, Star & Swastika Around it. Unlike the Greek and Roman examples, Sasanian bullae of high quality or functional importance usually bear inscriptions, providing a proper name, often followed by a patronymic and occasionally with a pious or auspicious phrase such as ‘be generous’ or ‘trust in god’. The glyptic scripts used for palhavi, the middle Persian language of the Sasanians, are based on the lapidary script, found on Sasanian reliefs of the 3rd century, and the cursive script used in chancery and for commercial activities. Other scripts found on bullae include Parthian, Sogdian, Aramaic, Syriac and Arabic.
Reference: Azarpay, G. “Bullae from the Palhavi archive at the University of California, Berkeley”, Eran ud Aneran, Studies Presented to Boris Ilich Marshak, Buenos Aires, 2003.