animal symbolic motifs of the sasanian seals and clay sealings case study: collection of moghadam museum of tehran

seals and clay sealings are the most important cultural material of sasanian period. there have been a few seals and bullas of various periods retained in the moghadam museum of tehran. these materials have not been introduced so far. authors of the present paper aim at to study and introduce the sasanian seals and bullas of this museum especially those bearing animal symbolic motifs. we do this through comparing them by the same materials of the different collections such as qasr-i abu nasr and takht-i soleiman collections while some of them are introduced here for the first time. the most interesting thing which we foun by this sresearch have been the mithraism elements which were used by sasanians as iconographic motifs on their sealing systems.