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Mahmoudabadi S A, Mozdbaran M. Art Exhibition: The East’s Victory on West in the Sasanian Shapur I’s Relief in Tang-e Chogān. Cult Herit Rec Stud 2023; 1 (1)
URL: http://chrs.richt.ir/article-3-212-en.html

Shapur I (242-273 AD) is the second Sasanian king and son of Ardashir I who is the founder of the Sasanian Dynasty. Although, during his reign, there existed a strong system of governance, military marshals and landowner princes (Zamindar Wispuhrs) who seem to date back to the Arsacid organization which ancestrally survived in the Sasanian period, he proved himself as a strong and determined person. He not only succeeded to safeguard the Sasanian identity against the authoritarian Zoroastrian clergymen in all governmental and non-governmental organizations both in rural and urban areas but also he could protect the country against the foreign enemies. There survived a large number of inscriptions and reliefs belonging to Shapur I especially is Fars. They unquestionably prove interest, attention and tendency to a politico-cultural permanence during his reign. One of these works is a relief belonging to him in Tang-e Chogan in Kazerun. It depicts an image of three victories of this Sasanian king which have occurred in three different times but shown in a segment of time. This paper aims to identify the original idea that led in showing the victories in the form of an artistic symbol. At the same time, it tries to study and introduce conditions and particulars of those images through political circumstances of that period of time.