Richard N. Frye's academic history of ancient Iran, a standard reference work in Iranian studies, provides a full English translation of Shapur I's trilingual inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht alongside a discussion of Sasanian royal religious policy, situating the inscription's fire temple endowments within the broader pattern of early Sasanian state support for Zoroastrian institutions.
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An academic monograph by a leading historian of ancient Iran, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable university level academic histories, used here for the inscription's translated text and its place in Sasanian religious policy, corroborated by Encyclopaedia Iranica's entry on the same monument. NotesUsed for the full English translation of Shapur I's inscription and its place within Sasanian religious policy.
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AuthorRichard N. Frye
PublisherC.H. Beck, Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft
Source Typeacademic monograph
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