By: Dr Kaveh Farrokh

Below are creations of the dresses of the ancient women of Iran from the Median,

Achaemenid, Parthian and Sassanian eras. The four reconstructions depicted here

were made during the early 1970s and are posted in the Iran Matlab website article

titled “مدل لباس زنان در ایران باستان

[Clothing of Women in Ancient Iran]”.

Mede era (c. 615-549 BCE) dress reconstruction based on the silver box discovered with the Oxus Treasure now housed at the British Museum (Source: Iran Matlab).

Reconstruction of  noblewoman based on the Achaemenid era (550-330 BCE) tapestry from Pazyryk housed at the Hermitage Museum at St. Petersburg (Source: Iran Matlab).

Parthian era (c.247 BCE – 224 CE) dress from Hatra, based on the figurine housed at the Baghdad Museum (Source: Iran Matlab).

Iranian queen from the Sassanian era (224-651 CE) based on  the silver plate housed at the Walter Art Gallery in Baltimore (Source: Iran Matlab).

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