Produzione Figurativa d'epoca Sasanide: tra la Via della Seta e l'Impero

The author in the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Museum of Oriental Art in Rome in 2001 entitled Antica Persia. I Tesori del Museo Nazionale di Teheran e la ricerca archeologica Italiana, deals in this article with mainly with the so-called figurative artistic production of the Sasanians. The difficulty in evidencing the peculiar traits of this production, has led scholars for this period to consider dominant a cultural character external to Iran, combining different elements. The central questions of the author is strictly related to the very lack of the archaeological related finds and the majority of straw finds, in time attributed to the Sasanians in the largest geographic sense possible, embracing also the Central Asia and the western Chinese influence across the paths of the Silk Routes.