Murrod

Murrod

Murrod

Sasanian queen and wife of king Ardashir I

Murrod or Myrod (Middle Persian: Murrōd, New Persian: مورود) was a 3rd-century Sasanian queen (banbishn), the wife of the Sasanian king (shah) Ardashir I (r. 224–242) and mother of Sasanian king Shapur I (r. 242–270).[1][2] She is mentioned in the inscription of Shapur I on the wall of the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht at Naqsh-e Rostam near Persepolis in southern Iran as “Lady Murrod, Mother of the King of Kings”.[1] According to a legend[3] she was a Parthian princess and a daughter of Artabanus IV of Parthia.[4]

The Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, where the inscription of Shapur I is engraved

References

  1. [1]
    Brosius 2000.
  2. [2]
    Shahbazi 2002.
  3. [3]
    Herzfeld, E. E. (1988). Iran in the Ancient East. New York: Hacker Art Books. ISBN 0-87817-308-0. p. 287.
  4. [4]
    Iain Gardner, Jason D. Beduhn, Paul Dilley, Mani at the Court of the Persian Kings: Studies on the Chester Beatty Kephalaia Codex (2014), p. 86

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