General view of the bilingual inscription on Shapur’s I horse
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The Bilingual inscription (in Sasanid Pahlavi and Greek) of Shapur I on his horse’s chest, phot 003. One can easily read the last two lines of the Greek text: «ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΑΡΙΑΝΩΝ ΕΚ ΓΕΝΟΥΣ ΘΕΪΚΟΥ, ΕΚ ΓΟΝΟΥ ΘΕΟΥ ΠΑΠΑΚΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ» (... ‘King of Aryan Kings, of the divine lineage, [grandson] of Papakou / Babak the King, descendant of God’)