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Sassanian, a. and n.|sæˈseɪnɪən|
Also Sasanian.
[f. Sasan (Pers. Sāsān) + -ian.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to the family of Sasan, whose grandson Ardashir I founded the dynasty which ruled the Persian Empire a.d. 211–651. Also, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the period of this dynasty.
b. n. A member of this family, esp. one of the Sassanian kings.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. V. li. 285 The fall of the Sassanian dynasty. 1855Fergusson Handbk. Archit. viii. i. 371 The Sassanians took up the style where it was left by the builders of Al Hadhr. 1866Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XXXV. i. 133 The kingdom of the Sasanians. 1908Athenæum 28 Mar. 380/1 The causes of the decay of the Byzantine and the Sasanian empires. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods iv. 84 In historical times we find the influence of the Sassanian culture of Persia following very much the same paths. 1929E. C. Thomas Lay Folks' Hist. Liturgy i. v. 22 Persia..was conquered by the Mohammedans in 651, thus ending the native Sassanian dynasty, which was founded in 223 b.c. 1931A. W. Seaby Art in Life of Mankind 80 The Sasanians were as bitter enemies of the Christian eastern or Byzantine empire as they had been of pagan Rome. 1940Burlington Mag. July 31/1 An important feature in Sasanian and Muslim architecture. 1958A. Toynbee East to West 167 On bas-reliefs of the Sasanian age one is shocked to find the goddess Anahita holding her ground beside Ormuzd. 1971R. Russell tr. Ahmad's Shore & Wave viii. 93 Strange houses. One like a dreadnought..one in Japanese style, one displaying Sassanian arches. 1976Nature 10 June 472/1 The Venus–Jupiter conjunction of 650 was one recorded by the Chinese; this conjunction was later regarded by Masha'allah as signifying the fall of the Sasanians and the rise of the Arabs. 1977Ashmolean Mus. Rep. Visitors 1975–76 17 (title) Parthian and Sasanian metalwork in the Bomford collection. 1980J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson xiv. 303 The Sassanian city of Istakh, destroyed during the Arab conquest in the seventh century a.d. |