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    Kartir (also spelled Karder, Karter and Kerdir; Middle Persian: 𐭪𐭫𐭲𐭩𐭫 Kardīr) was a powerful and influential Zoroastrian priest during the reigns...
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    acceded to the throne, he was pressured by the Zoroastrian high-priest Kartir Bahram I to kill Mani and persecute his followers. Bahram II was also amenable...
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    teens, ascended the throne with the aid of the powerful Zoroastrian priest Kartir, just like his father had done. He was met with considerable challenges...
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    Kartir, the great and influential Sasanian priest, has left an inscription in Naqsh-e Rajab in the Chamgan mountain. The inscription is located about one...
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    Manichaeism, and in 274, with the support of the influential Zoroastrian priest Kartir, he had Mani imprisoned and executed. Bahram I's reign was largely uneventful...
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    One of them belongs to Shapur I the Sassanian, and another to the priest Kartir. According to Walter Henning, "These inscriptions are the most important...
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  • "Kartir Herbad", the two names "Kartir son of Ardavan" and "Mehrag son of Tusar" They are also seen to indicate the existence of the letters of Kartir...
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    remains a major city today in Iran. He promoted the Zoroastrian priest Kartir to the rank of chief priest (mowbed) and gave the Manichaean prophet Mani...
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    inscriptions of Kartir, Tansar's successor and high priest under three of Ardashir I's successors. In his own inscription on the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, Kartir states...
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    father, ascended the throne with the aid of the powerful Zoroastrian priest Kartir. He then made a settlement with Narseh to give up his entitlement to the...
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    Iranica. Archived from the original on 18 May 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2019. "KARTIR". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Archived from the original on 25 June 2019. Retrieved...
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    of Mani by influential Zoroastrian high priest Kartir. 276 - Coronation of Bahram II. 276 - The Kartir is chosen as extreme power of the Zoroastrian place...
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    and rock inscriptions of Sasanian emperors and other notables, such as Kartir the High Priest. Inscriptional Pahlavi used 19 non-joining letters: Letter...
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    Persian seals and inscriptions, including that of the Zoroastrian magi Kartir. The present-day name is the Arabicized form of Ispahan (unlike Middle Persian...
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    known as "the house of Anahid's fire". The influential Zoroastrian priest Kartir was, amongst other posts, appointed as warden (pādixšāy) of "fire(s) at...
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    significant, especially during war against the Romans. Zoroastrian high priest Kartir, refers in his inscription dated about 280 on the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht monument...
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    translation based on Sprengling, Martin, 1953, Third Century Iran, Sapor and Kartir, with modifications in both based on Jügel, Thomas Konkordanz der Kirdīr-Inschriften...
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    in 273, who under the influence of the zealous Zoroastrian high priest Kartir persecuted all non-Zoroastrian religions. It is thought that this persecution...
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    have made great worship of the gods." According to the Zoroastrian priest Kartir, Shapur treated the Zoroastrians generously, and permitted members of their...
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    December 2006. Sprengling, Martin (1953). Third Century Iran: Sapor and Kartir. The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. OCLC 941007640. Archived...
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    Indigenous sources of information from the same period are the 3rd century Kartir inscription at Ka'ba-ye Zartosht and the early 4th-century edict of Mihr-Narseh...
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    his successor Bahram I, a follower of the intolerant Zoroastrian reformer Kartir, began to persecute the Manichaeans. He incarcerated Mani, who died in prison...
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    four takhts and the SGPC. Mobad and Magi are the clergy of Zoroastrianism. Kartir was one of the powerful and influential of them. Historically traditional...
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  • and material culture, they survived the zealotry of the Sasanian priest Kartir (fl. 3rd century) and his successors, and were ultimately incorporated into...
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    interaction with political power under the influential Zoroastrian high priest Kartir on one side and a number of Sassanian kings on the other side. Arya appears...
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    man behind Ahuramazda on the left side of the relief is the high priest Kartir. Ardashir's horse is trampling Artabanus V, the last king of Parthian Empire...
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    elevated their soul, in celestial ascent. One of the titles of the priest Kartir was Ohrmazd mowbed, which for the Denkard, according to Prods Oktor Skjaervo...
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    honorific to denote any Zoroastrian priest of any rank. Hormizd I appointed Kartir mowbadān-mowbad "high priest of priests". The term mobad is a contraction...
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    former is the way it appears in Middle Persian inscriptions such as the Kartir inscription at Kabah-i Zardusht, while the latter is what is now understood...
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  • The Sarab-e Bahram relief of Bahram II surrounded by grandees, Kartir and Papak being on his left....
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