Roman ‘Soldatenkaiser’ on the Triumphal Rock Reliefs of Shāpūr I - A Reassessment

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https://doi.org/10.34739/his.2015.04.03

Słowa kluczowe:

Shāpūr I, Sasanian rock reliefs, Gordian III, Philip the Arab, Valerian, Uranius Antoninus, Bishāpūr, Dārābgerd

Abstrakt

Five rock reliefs surviving in Persis/Fārs province in southern Iran represent the victories of Shāpūr I (241–272 AD), the second Sasanian King of Kings (Šāhānšāh), over the Roman Empire. The three Roman Emperors depicted on these reliefs have traditionally been identified as Gordian III (238–244), Philip I – known as ‘the Arab’ – (244–249) and Valerian I (253–260). From the 1960s onward, new interpretations are presented. In the most recent of these, Uranius Antoninus (253/254) is recognised on three of Shāpūr’s triumphal reliefs. The present paper aims to re-examine these new hypotheses by considering numismatic materials, including a unique gold coin of Shāpūr which bears an image of the same topic accompanying a legend on its reverse.

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2019-08-27 — zaktualizowane 2015-09-16

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SHAVAREBI, E. (2015). Roman ‘Soldatenkaiser’ on the Triumphal Rock Reliefs of Shāpūr I - A Reassessment. Historia I Świat, 4, 47–63. https://doi.org/10.34739/his.2015.04.03