5049831 Wall panel with a charging boar, c.6th century AD (stucco) by Sasanian School; 29.5x38.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: From the east iwan (vaulted hall) of a large house at Umm ez-Za???ir in the Ctesiphon area, Mesopotamia The city on the east bank of the Tigris River (20 miles south of modern Baghdad in Iraq) flourished for more than 800 years as the capital of the Parthians and the Sasanians who ruled the ancient Near East before Islamic conquest in the seventh century.).