TY - BOOK AU - Curtis,Vesta Sarkhosh AU - Stewart,Sarah ED - University of London. ED - London Middle East Institute. ED - British Museum. TI - The Sasanian era SN - 9781845116903 U1 - 935 23 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York, NY, New York, NY PB - I.B. Tauris in association with The London Middle East Institute at SOAS and The British Museum, Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Sassanids KW - Congresses KW - Iran KW - History KW - To 640 N1 - Proceedings of two symposia; Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-175); Introduction -- How Pious was Shapur I? -- Early Sasanian coinage -- Formation and ideology of the Sasanian state in the context of archaeological evidence -- Kingship in early Sasanian Iran -- Image and identity: art of the early Sasanian Dynasty -- The Sasanian in the East -- Religion in the late Sasanian Period: Eran, Aneran, and other religious designations -- State and society in late Antique Iran -- Prices and drachms in the late Sasanian Period -- Late Sasanian society between orality and literacy ER -