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THE IRANIAN WORLD
ÊRÂN-XWARRAH-SHÂPUHR
By: Rika Gyselen
(Êrân, glory of Šâpûr), Sasanian province (š) containing Susa and probably created by Šâpûr II (r. 309-379). Though Susa was given the epithet êr-kar "made Iranian," the capital of the province was actually Karkha, renamed Êrân-xwarrah-Šâbûhr-šahrestân for the occasion. The toponym was often deformed in the post-Sasanian period (see Nöldeke, Geschichte der Perser, p. 58, n. 1).
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R. N. Frye, "Sasanian Seal Inscriptions," in R. Stiehl and H. E. Stier, eds., Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte und deren Nachleben: Festschrift für Franz Altheim zum 6.10.1968, Berlin, 1970, p. 82, fig. 11. |
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P. Gignoux, Catalogue des sceaux, came‚es et bulles sassanides de la Bibliotheàque Nationale et du Muse‚e du Louvre II, Paris, 1978, pp. 83-89 (b.4.1-4-14, pls. XXXV-XL). |
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R. Gyselen, La ge‚ographie administrative de l'Empire sassanide: Les te‚moignages sigillographiques, Res Orientales 1, Bures-sur-Yvette, 1989, pp. 46-47 and passim. |
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Idem and H. Gasche, "Suse et Ivân-e Kerkha, capitale provinciale d' Êrân-xwarrah-Šâpûr: Mote de ge‚ographique historique sassanide," Studia Iranica 23, 1994, pp. 19-35, plates I-X. Mojmal, ed. Bahâr, p. 67. |
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Schwarz, Iran, p. 369. Tabarî, I, pp. 840, 845. |
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