Persian onager - Gur

 Salvete Omnes,

today a short entry on the Persian Onager aka Gur-khar

Onager - from Horse and its Relatives - by Richard Lydekker (1912).

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. two-wheeled vehicle (not a true Indo-European chariot of later 3rd millennium) from the Early Dynastic Period , Mesopotamia, Iraq: Tell-Agrab 2600-2370BC

donkey at the top, onager at the bottom

Great Salt Desert in the Kavir National Park with camels 

and doneys

& horses

Sassanian era Deir-e/Gayr-e Gachin Cararavansarai with mount Damavand in the background

Shahnameh- Bahram Gur hunting

by the way, quite a nice dog this Persian mastiff

all images are from Wiki Commons - thanks to all the photographers for their work and copyleft 

Valete

East Iran in Late Antiquity - oldies but goldies

 Salvete Omnes,

 

     I have been shifting between subjects in my studies, and recently the ancient and early medieval topic popped out. Namely, I listed to two lectures from 2016 -  hence 'oldies but goldies' - :) 

The Silk Road and the Iranian Political Economy in Late Antiquity - by prof. Richard Payne
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East Iran in Antiquity: Silk Road and Central Asia outside the Paradigm of Eurasian Trade -  prof. Khodadad 

Rezakhani .

and to go along with the lectures, there are some Sogdian images (including Rustam) or the Sogdians and their famous traders in the Han, Tang Chinese etc art, especially the sculpted figures of the land cruiser of the Eurasian land trade routes - the  camel, the Central Asia context it is the Bactrian camel.
On the Silk Road foundation site   you can read a rather intriguing article by Daniel Potts on the Bactrian Camels and Bactrian-Dromedary Hybrids.

valete

just sketching

Salvete Omnes.
just sketching and mostly reworking my older sketches - in progress


 
Spring is here and more sunshine




 

 

 
nota bene check out this fantastic project - Digital Central Asian Archaeology (DCAA) -
yesterday I downloaded some works by Pugachenova on Khalchayan[in Russian].

Here you can read a very interesting article by my friend Patryk on the diadem from the Khalchayan battle scene.
Valete