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[[File:Irnp105-Grobowce Naqsh-E Rustam.jpg|thumb|300px|[[Ardashir I]] receives the ring of power from [[Ahura Mazda]].]]
[[File:Clevelandart 1962.150.jpg|thumb|300x300px|Silver-gilt bowl with king hunting, a typical subject in Sasanian metalwork]]
'''Sasanian art''', or Sassanid art, was produced under the
The surviving art of the Sassanids is best seen in its architecture, reliefs and metalwork, and there are some surviving paintings from what was evidently a widespread production. Stone reliefs were probably greatly outnumbered by interior ones in plaster, of which only fragments have survived. Free standing sculptures are fewer than in [[Parthian art]], but the [[Colossal Statue of Shapur I]] (r. AD 240–272) is a major exception, carved from a [[stalagmite]] grown in a cave;<ref name="Harper">Harper</ref> there are literary mentions of other colossal statues of kings, now lost.<ref>Keall</ref> There are important Sassanid rock reliefs, and the Parthian tradition of moulded stucco decoration to buildings continued, also including large figurative scenes.<ref name="Harper"/>
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