s a s a n i a n  d a t e s

revised
november, 2008

Based on Mochiri's tables of dates (circa Khusro I through Khusro II), with a newer transliteration scheme; variations abound. I'll probably end up changing it some more...

Gobl SN = Robert Gobl, Sasanian Numismatics, Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig (1971)
Kolesnikov = A. I. Kolesnikov, Deneshnoe Chozaystvo v Irane v VII Veke, Moscow (1998)
Mitchiner ACW = Michael Mitchiner, Oriental Coins, the Ancient and Classical World, Hawkins Publications, London (1978)
Mochiri ENIS II = Malek Iradj Mochiri, Etude De Numismatique Iranienne sous les Sassanides Et Arabe-Sassanides, Tome II, Teheran (1983)
Paruck SC = F. D. J. Paruck, Sasanian Coins, Bombay (1924)
Sears MHI = Stuart D. Sears, A Monetary History of Iraq and Iran, CA. CE 500 to 750, University of Chicago, Chicago (1997)
SICA Vol. 1 = Stephen Album and Tony Goodwin, Sylloge of Islamic Coins In the Ashmolean, Volume 1: The Pre-Reform Coinage of the Early Islamic Period Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2002)

PAHLAVI ALPHABET

Pahlavi (Middle Persian) is read from right to left. Many letterforms are similar: B and Y; R and L; D and K; G and Z; U, V, W and N.

TRANSLITERATION	DIACRITICAL	PAHLAVI
a	‘
y	’
kh (also written as x and ch)	ḥ
ts, ch	č
sh	š

YEAR	PAHLAVI	TRANS- LITERATION	YEAR	PAHLAVI	TRANS- LITERATION	YEAR	PAHLAVI	TRANS- LITERATION
1		‘ywk’	17		ḥptdḥ	33		syčsyḥ
2		tlyn	18		ḥštdḥ	34		čḥlsyḥ
3		tlt‘	19		nwčdḥ	35		pnčsyḥ
4		‘rb‘	20		wyst’	36		ššsyḥ
5		ḥwmš‘	21		y‘čwyst’	37		ḥptsyḥ
6		št‘	22		dwčwyst’	38		ḥštsyḥ
7		šb‘	23		syčwyst’	39		nwčsyḥ
8		twmn'	24		čḥlwyst’	40		čḥl’
9		tš‘	25		pnčwyst’	41		y'čḥl
10		‘šl‘	26		ššwyst’	42		dw'čḥl
11		y‘čdḥ	27		ḥptwyst’	43		sčḥl
12		dw‘čdḥ	28		ḥštwyst’	44		čḥlčḥl
13		syčdḥ	29		nwḥwyst’	45		pnčḥl
14		čḥldḥ	30		syḥ	46		šščḥl
15		pnčdḥ	31		y‘čsyḥ	47		ḥptčḥl
16		š‘čdḥ	32		dwčsyḥ	48		ḥštčḥl