seals and clay sealings are the most important cultural material of sasanian period. there have been a few seals and bullas of various periods retained in the moghadam museum of tehran. these materials have not been introduced so far. authors of the present paper aim at to study and introduce the sasanian seals and bullas of this museum especially those bearing animal symbolic motifs. we do thi...

Abstract This essay discusses how the traditional Chinese geographical concept Nine Domains ( Jiufu 九服) was applied in Yixing’s 一行 (683–727) large-scale gnomonic survey of Tang dynasty. surveying method is reconstructed by comparing textual records with schematic delineations. comparison shows that centralized and symmetrical pattern arrangement sites conforms to visual delineations Domains. Th...

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