The Significance of "Persian Context" Discoveries from Archaeological Sites in Thailand and Southeast Asia: A Concise Perspective
Authors
Shahab Setudeh-Nejad
Abstract
The recent discovery of Persian-based coins from the Sasanian Dynasty (AD226-651) in the Pattani area of Southern Thailand, as well as fragments of other Sasanian art products from various other Thai and Southeast Asian sites, has raised questions among art historians and specialists in Thai and Southeast Asian studies about the extent of cultural diffusions in this region from the direction of the Zoroastrian world of West and Central Asia
