{"title":"Hidden in plain sight: the Hebrew inscription on Ardashir I's rock relief at Naqsh-i Rustam","authors":"B. Overlaet","doi":"10.2143/IA.46.0.2084425","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The relief of Ardashir I at Naqsh-i Rustam is the first Sasanian investiture scene with the two protagonists on horseback. They are identified by a prominent trilingual inscription on the horses as Ardashir I and Ahura Mazda. Another inscription remained up to now unobserved, however. It is chiselled on the folds of Ahura Mazda’s tunic.","PeriodicalId":43366,"journal":{"name":"Iranica Antiqua","volume":"12 1","pages":"331-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084425","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iranica Antiqua","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2143/IA.46.0.2084425","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The relief of Ardashir I at Naqsh-i Rustam is the first Sasanian investiture scene with the two protagonists on horseback. They are identified by a prominent trilingual inscription on the horses as Ardashir I and Ahura Mazda. Another inscription remained up to now unobserved, however. It is chiselled on the folds of Ahura Mazda’s tunic.
期刊介绍:
Iranica Antiqua is one of the leading scholarly journals covering studies on the civilization of pre-Islamic Iran in its broadest sense. This annual publication, edited by the Department for Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Gent University, Belgium, contains preliminary excavation reports, contributions on archaeological problems, studies on different aspects of history, institutions, religion, epigraphy, numismatics and history of art of ancient Iran, as well as on cultural exchanges and relations between Iran and its neighbours.