Large Sassanian multi-colored agate bead with an engraved image of Gayomard with a dog, 200-400 AD.
Depicting the quasi-human figure with nude hairy body and shaggy head, arms and legs outspread and in either hand grasping a staff, with a dog at his feet.
Diameter of base: 2.5 cm
Reference : see similar in Sassanian Stamp Seals, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 70, lot # 155.
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