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FIGS. 39, 40, 41. Yazdgird III. PLATE VII. (Courtesy of M. I. ) 51 CentAsiaIII-Chap02 51 23/11/96, 12:41 N. N. Chegini and A. V. Nikitin the names of mint cities in abbreviated forms. These forms stand for the full Sasanian names of those cities authorized to possess mints. About 200 of these mint signs are known to us,57 such as: ’W for Hormizd Ardashir (present-day Ahvaz) ’PR for Abarshahr (Nishapur) ’RT for Ardashir-Khvarreh (Firuzabad) ’HM for Hamadan ’YL’N for Eran-Khvarreh-Shapur (Susa) BYS for Bishapur in Fars.
Since payment in specie or even in kind did not suffice to recompense the ‘knights’, villages were granted to them in fief, and a large class of small landowners came into existence . . 65 The Sasanians expended great effort in fighting Rome, Byzantium and the eastern nomads who invaded the Iranian frontiers. 67 The relief frieze of Ardashir I at Firuzabad is a representation of cavalry warfare. 68 Although the Ardashir relief does not depict the mace and battle axe, there is evidence of their use during the Late Parthian and Early Sasanian periods.
Nikitin Sasanian cities and fortifications So far, there has been adequate archaeological investigation of only a small number of the cities of Sasanian Iran: consequently, there are few examples from which to assess the system of urban design. The layout of many of the ancient Parthian cities appears to have survived unchanged into Sasanian times. Late tradition ascribes the founding of a large number of cities to Ardashir I (226–241). The new capital of Ardashir-Khvarreh (modern Firuzabad) built by Ardashir in Fars was of archaic layout.