This paper focuses on the image of the ram that repre¬sented the most popular subject on Sasanian art. This animal could have been a religious symbol in Sasanian art especially when embellished with ribbons or a necklace. In fact, it appeared very often on seals that belonged to Zoroastrian priest. Observations on Sogdian art and much earlier specimens in Mesopota¬mian art seem to confirm that the ram was the symbolic animal of a deity as¬sociated with the planet Venus in pre-Islamic Persia and Sogdiana. The best can¬didate could be Anāhitā, the Zoroastrian goddess of water and fertility whose name is still connected to the planet Venus in modern Iran.