A Unique Drachm Coin of Shapur I


YÜCEL M.

IRANIAN STUDIES, cilt.50, sa.3, ss.331-344, 2017 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 50 Sayı: 3
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00210862.2017.1303329
  • Dergi Adı: IRANIAN STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.331-344
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

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.