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Murrod

Murrod or Myrod was a 3rd-century Sasanian queen (banbishn), the wife of the Sasanian king (shah) Ardashir I and mother of Sasanian king Shapur I. 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”. According to a legend, she was a Parthian princess and daughter of Artabanus IV of Parthia.

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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).12 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 daughter of Artabanus IV of Parthia.4

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  1. Brosius 2000.
  2. Shahbazi 2002.
  3. Herzfeld, E. E. (1988). Iran in the Ancient East. New York: Hacker Art Books. ISBN 0-87817-308-0. p. 287.
  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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