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Possible Symbolic Representations Referring to Anāhitā in Sasanian Sigillography

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Matteo Compareti Capital Normal University School of History Beijing China

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Abstract

Anāhitā, the Avestan fertility goddess and the personification of planet Venus, was very popular in Persia and the Caucasus region during pre-Christian and pre-Islamic times. She probably presented connections with her Mesopotamian counterpart Inanna-Ištar whose symbolic animals were the lion and, most likely, the ram. Since the lion had become the symbolic animal of Sumero-Akkadian Nanaya-Nana among the Central Asian Iranian peoples, Anāhitā possibly inherited the ram as may be observed in some controversial medieval Sogdian paintings. Greek cultural elements may have formed part of the definition of her final iconography. All these hypotheses take into consideration the initial and final stages of the process that, in geographical terms, are Mesopotamia and Central Asia while Persia appears completely excluded. This brief paper intends to propose some iconographic solutions in order to shed light on the probable intermediary role of Sasanian artists.

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