Primary Sources:

sword-sheath / sword. (n.d.). Retrieved from October 26, 2018, from https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=367446&partId=1&searchText=Sasanian+sword&page=1

This primary source has no information about the author, and no published date. This article was published to provide the readers the information about an artifact of the Sassanid Empire. This article is published by a website of British Museum. This website has information about artifacts around the world, which is reliable for readers. This article provides an image along with the information about the artifact which make it easier for the viewers. The lack of the origin is the limitation about this source.

 

Head of a king. (n.d.). Retrieved from October 26, 2018, from https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/65.126/

This source doesn’t have the author’s name, also the published date. This source talks about a piece of art, a sculpture from the period of the Sassanid Empire. The information about the sculpture is from the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a reliable source because it is a primary source (based on the artifact), and also it was published by the museum. The limitation of this source is it doesn’t have the author’s name and the published date.

 

 

Secondary Sources:

Cervantes, A. C. (2018, October 25). Sasanian Empire. Retrieved October 26, 2018, from https://www.ancient.eu/Sasanian_Empire/ 

This is secondary source created by Alonso Constenla Cervantes and published on 17 May 2013. The source published on the website is Ancient History Encyclopedia which obtained EU web Awards winner in 2016. The purpose of this website would provide education about the Sassanid empire. This source was very helpful it gave me a basic understanding of the Sassanid empire. The information in this source has been reviewed by some sources and the facts stated corroborate through my reading of other texts of the same information. The source is very reliable and doesn’t have personal opinion. The writer is Alonso Constenla Cervantes who has a degree from the university of Universidad da Costa Rica in Spain.

The Sassanian Empire (224 – 651 A.D.).(n.d.). Retrieved October 26, 2018, from https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/sass/hd_sass.htm

This secondary source was created by Fowlkes Childs, Blair. The source was first published in October 2003, last updated April 2016. The source purpose is to give the information about the culture identify monuments and artifacts of the Sassanian empire, in the 3ed to 7th century. This source was very useful a a value of this it gives the perspective of the Sassanian empire. The source is reliable and doesn’t seen bias towards anyone, group or class. Fowlkes Childs Blair is one of the writer who graduate from Institute of fine arts, New York university and Art and Archaeology, Princeton university. The source was expanded original by the Department of Ancient of Ancient Near Eastern Art in Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, New York