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]

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

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