Word: sasanian
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...inscription, seven feet long and nine feet high, concerns the old Zoroastrian religion and will take several months to translate. It is expected to shed new light on the Parthian and Sasanian Empire...
...display went a 4th-Century Sasanian palace hall, the like of which does not exist even in its native Persia; a mandapam (pillared hall) from a Vishnu temple which Philadelphia Socialite Adeline Pepper Gibson spirited out of India by junk in 1912; a lofty Ming hall from Peking, "the finest single architectural unit ever to leave China"; a dozen other galleries. All 15 were crowded with a superb collection of Oriental art that ranged from Persian rugs to Japanese prints...
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