The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The Sassanid dynasty is the second Persian empire, the last Persian empire in the pre-**** period.

In 224 AD, the Sassanid dynasty replaced the Parthian Empire, which was regarded as one of the two major powers in West Asia and Europe. It coexisted and fought with the Roman Empire for more than 400 years. It was only in 651 AD that it was finished due to internal strife and external war.

This is a centralized dynasty, and to Zhang Nan, its demise is a bit unbelievable: With a history of more than 400 years, the final disintegration took only 5 years!

It was not reimbursed at all because of decay and weak national power, nor was it an overwhelming invasion by an unstoppable foreign enemy. When the national power was still strong, it suddenly fell dead.

Probably only the land of the Middle East will have such a strange thing, the so-called empire, the so-called powerful, Quan Ni-Ma is a pile of sand!

Regardless of what you believe in, you don’t need a reason at all when you’re done, and you’re done.

The Sassanid dynasty was very large, and its territory during its rule included Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the Caucasus, southwestern Central Asia, parts of Turkey, parts of the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, and southwestern Pakistan. It even extends to India.

The area of ​​land controlled by the empire reached 5.6 million square kilometers in the 20 or 30 years before it was over, and it was close to 20 million at the time of the largest population.

In the early seventh century AD, it was a truly huge empire.

It is not only strong in national power, but its cultural influence is far beyond its borders. Its influence spreads to Western Europe, Africa, China and India, and it has a significant role in promoting the formation of medieval art in Europe and Asia.

In today's world, regardless of whether it is the West or the East, some cultural relics of the Sassanid dynasty will be unearthed, which can explain its cultural influence at the time, at least its handicrafts are very popular with the dignitaries of the East and the West.

For example, the exquisite gilt and silver teapot that experts are admiring here is a representative of Sassanid crafts.

The silver pot is 37.5 cm high and weighs 1.5 kg. The shape is full of the Middle Eastern style of the 6th and 7th centuries, with a tall and long body, an ovoid belly, a thin neck, a duckbill-shaped stream, and a round base. The two ends of the handle are bent to form a sheep's head, the top is cast with a human head, the figure wears a round cap with a high nose, and the abdomen of the kettle body is hammered into three groups of six male and female images.

You don’t need to look up any information or know how this gilt and silver teapot came from and how it was studied. The only Nong Bosheng who specializes in Western cultural relics and archaeology can casually tell the three sets of patterns on the silver teapot. It is an ancient Greek myth.

A very interesting story, a story that can fully reflect the people and society of the Western world two or three thousand years ago that "have problems in their brains and love the green oil on their heads": the three goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite as "who is the most "The beautiful goddess" wants to fight, the king of gods Zeus ordered Paris to judge, and this Paris is the son of King Troy...

Fairy beauty pageant, referees come, this brain hole...

The question is, it’s not easy to choose the three goddesses. Aphrodite (Venus as the Romans said) wanted to engage in a black gold transaction: she privately promised the handsome prince Paris that if she was chosen, He gave him the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen.

The handsome Prince Paris immediately turned into a pig brother, and gave Aphrodite the golden apple engraved "To the most beautiful goddess". Venus won successfully, and the first set of patterns on the gilt and silver pot That's the content.

The transaction must be honest. With the help of the goddess Venus, the prince traveled across the sea to Greece to find Helen, the queen of Menelaus, king of Sparta.

Then, the **** Helen suddenly admired the prince who came from afar. When her husband left the palace, she brought her jewelry, abandoned her daughter, and eloped with His Royal Highness to Troy. The second set of patterns shows the sea wheeler. The scene of meeting Paris with a jewellery box and eloped.

Well, the wife eloped with others, and King Menelaus was furious, so the 10-year Trojan War started, and finally the Greek coalition forces defeated Troy through a "trojan horse".

Menelaus, the green hat king, finally regained his beloved **** queen Helen. The third set of patterns on the silver pot shows the content of Menelaus wearing a helmet and welcoming Helen back, continuing to happily. When his green hat king is gone.

As for the origin of this gilt and silver pot, it was 7 years ago in the autumn of 1983. During the investigation, the archaeological team discovered a large-scale noble tomb with murals in the southern suburbs of Guyuan City, Xia Ning.

According to the records on the epitaph, it is confirmed that the owner of the tomb is Li Xian and his wife Wu Hui from the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

It is said that business exchanges between the Sassanid dynasty and the Northern Zhou regime more than 1400 years ago were very frequent. Yuanzhou (now Guyuan) is located at the forefront of the Silk Road, with many business travelers and convenient transportation. It is not surprising that a large number of Western goods flowed into China.

As a distinguished family of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sassanid handicrafts unearthed from the cemetery of General Zhuguo have become quite normal, but I don’t know if the Li Xian couple knew what the story is on this gilt and silver pot, would they not? Will take it to the grave.

Even if the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was surnamed Yuwen, he couldn't bear such a maddening story, right?

There is a question. How can there be ancient Greek myths on the crafts of the Sassanid Dynasty?

This is not surprising. There have been many wars between the Sassanid Dynasty and the Roman Empire. The former has even killed one and captured a Roman emperor, and the latter has won many wars. Eight liang, no one can do nothing.

Among the prisoners of war captured by the Sassanids in the war, there should be a large number of Roman artisans, and the gilt and silver pots depicting Greek mythology are most likely to be made by these artisans.

For Nong Bosheng and others, this cultural relic is very precious, not only because the Sassanian gilt and silver pot unearthed in China is the only one, it is also a rare treasure in the existing Sassanian cultural relics in the world. So I want Zhang Nan to take a good look, it's a rare opportunity.

But Zhang Nan actually said that he has a lot of them, and if the curator likes it, he can give him one.

This……

Mandarin, everyone heard it.

Zhang Nan saw everyone’s reaction and said with a smile: “What’s weird? I have two gilt and silver teapots with the same shape and the same pattern; there are three or four pieces of silverware that resemble the story of a hammer. There are more silverware in Shan, about ten or so.

I'm not interested in the story of the green hat, abandoning her husband, such a woman should be immersed in the pig cage, the king is a pig head, I really don't know how messy the Greeks and Romans were, a bunch of livestock. "

Hey, the ancient Romans are messy enough. Think about the starring movie and died of pancreatic cancer. In the end, there was not much blood and sand in the drama.

chaos!

Because there were a bunch of American bodyguards around him, and Charlie was there, Zhang Nan didn't explode the classic phrase "When we were humans, they were still monkeys!"

Without courtesy, justice and shame, it can only be a beast.

As for the origin of the Sassanid silverware, it is of course the mine in Berchtesgaden: it’s not about a dozen pieces, but a full 8 large boxes. The Nazi cultural relics experts have already helped Zhang Nan sort out and research it, large and small. Small at least 200 pieces!

Almost one-third of it has a Roman style. Zhang Nan feels that either the Sassanid nobles at the time liked this style, or because Western archaeologists and explorers liked this style, it took up such a large proportion.

For archaeology in the Middle East, or plunder, Western explorers are the pioneers. In World War II, except for Britain, Italy was an ally, and it did not attack a few slave countries. Nazi Germany scoured all of Europe.

Adding to the fact that the Sassanid relics owned by the Nazis are definitely quite a few that were originally discovered in Europe, the eight big boxes can only be said to be a very small part.

There are two pure gold Sasanian long-necked pots with silver gilt, Zhang Nan, one of which has almost the same pattern as the one in front of you!

Nong Bosheng really wanted to like it. It was a trivial thing to give him a silver pot. Zhang Nan really didn't like it. Looking at it, he felt that the group of people were crazy and unlucky.

The experts have not yet expressed their opinions. Charlize Theron, who was listening to his brother just now, asked curiously: "What is a pig cage?"

Chinese~www.readwn.com~ She can understand a little bit, and she can also say a few words.

Zhang Nan cast his eyes at the girl and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"Chie..."

Give a gesture: Take this curious baby away quickly, what is this!

Weng Qianhui smiled and yelled Charlie aside. To Zhang Nan's expectation, two women, one large and one small, whispered and crooked for a while, and then the girl looked a little surprised on the road.

Here Zhang Nan is discussing Sasanian silverware craftsmanship with a few experts, but Charlie is here to make trouble again: "Brother, Helen, this **** should be soaked in the pig cage. Menelaus is a neurotic. The wife deserves to run away!"

Now she was speaking English, and Nong Bosheng couldn't understand it, but the famous English expert who was more than 60 years old laughed.

When a few people asked, the expert surnamed Wang explained euphemistically, everyone smiled: Well, this American girl is good and knows courtesy, justice and shame.

They all thought Charlie was American.

Now that the gilt and silver pots are all set aside, Zhang Nan said to Charlie: "Have you never heard that story before?"

Westerners, it shouldn't be.

The girl shrugged her shoulders, "I only know a general idea. I didn't think it was so perverted here. I felt sorry for the soldiers who fought for a **** and a neurotic king.

Those Trojans are also very pitiful, because this battle was fought very badly. "

Then I thought about it, this is normal: when I met her, this child was only 13 years old, and he was busy learning ballet before. How can I have the time to learn more about ancient Greek myths? I can hear that Helen is very beautiful and beautiful enough It's not bad for a country to fight a battle.

As for the Trojan Horse Slaughter City, knowing this legend is almost the same, which parent will tell the girl at home about the many twists and turns around here.

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