"Nišānscheibe": Nishān (personal/clan device) discs in #Sasanian art
1: Well known one from Ctesiphon
These are, when more complex, usually referred to as monograms
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2: also Ctesiphon
Also with the famous wings motif from Sasanian era
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3: possibly another one
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4: From Kish, Iraq. Not sure if someone has read this as a monogram yet
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I previously talked about how some scholars have attempted to tentatively read some monograms
Some examples here similar to the last one on our list
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5: Tepe Hissar
Not sure if someone has read/ deciphered this one either. But it shouldn't be too hard given many similar ones have been published in the past couple of decades.
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