Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • How Pious was Shapur I?
  • Early Sasanian coinage
  • Formation and ideology of the Sasanian state in the context of archaeological evidence
  • Kingship in Early Sasanian Iran
  • Image and identity: art of the early Sasanian Dynasty
  • The Sasanian in the East
  • Religion in the late Sasanian Period: Eran, Aneran, and other religious designations
  • State and society in late Antique Iran
  • Prices and Drachms in the late Sasanian Period
  • Late Sasanian society between orality and literacy.