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A Unique Drachm Coin of Shapur I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Muhammet Yücel
Muhammet Yücel*
Affiliation:
The Department of History at Muş Alparslan University, The Department of Ancient History at Istanbul University
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Abstract

The Sasanian king Shapur I held a ten year series of campaigns against the Roman Empire. Returning to Iran after these campaigns, in order to immortalize his victories he built a series of reliefs and gave broad information in his famous work, Ka’be-ye Zardosht. However, the term he used to define himself in these articles, “King of Kings of Iranians and non-Iranians,” was not used on coins, which has become a subject of discussion. This work aims to clarify such arguments based on a unique drachm belonging to Shapur I which is present in the Elazig Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , May 2017 , pp. 331 - 344
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2017

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Footnotes

This study was supported by the Istanbul University Research Fund (BAP) under Project [52846]. Muhammet Yücel would like to thank Rika Gyselen and the anonymous reviewers for their guidance, detailed feedback and suggestions on this paper.

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