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Triumph of Shapur I
The Triumph of Shapur I refers to rock reliefs carved in Iran to commemorate the victories of the Sasanian king Shapur I over Roman emperors in the third century CE. The best known, at Naqsh-e Rostam, shows the captive emperor Valerian kneeling or submitting before the mounted king. Accounts of the Sasanian Empire treat these monuments as expressions of the dynasty's early military triumphs and royal ideology.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Triumph of Shapur I. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/triumph-of-shapur-i
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