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Sasanian queen and wife of king Ardashir I From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 daughter of Artabanus IV of Parthia.[4]
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