Murrod

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).^[1][2] 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 a daughter of Artabanus IV of Parthia.^[4]

The Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, where the inscription of Shapur I is engraved

References

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

Sources

• Brosius, Maria (2000). "WOMEN i. In Pre-Islamic Persia". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. London et al.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Shahbazi, A. Shapur (2002). "Šāpur I". Encyclopaedia Iranica.