[sasanian vase]

s a s a n i a n  m i n t s


Updated February 5, 2007


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A compendium of attributions from Album, Gobl, Gyselen, Kolesnikov, Mitchiner, Mochiri, Paruck, Schindel and Sears;
many identifications are preliminary and/or questionable.

Album SICA I = 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)
Gobl SN = Robert Gobl, Sasanian Numismatics, Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig (1971)
Gyselen 2004 = Rika Gyselen, New Evidence For Sasanian Numismatics, Res Orientales XVI, Bures-sur-Yvette (2004)
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)
Schindel SNS 3 = Nikolaus Schindel, Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum: Volume 3, Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien (2004)


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 PAHLAVI TRANSLITERATIONPAHLAVI
a l
b m
g n
d s
u, v, w p, f
z ts, ch
kh, h r
i, y sh
k t


SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
A uncertain site Media

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AH unknown unknown
KWN AH SNS 3; Varhran IV

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AHM Hamadan Media/Central District
KWN AHM SNS 3; Varhran IV

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AL unknown unknown Mitchiner lists AR for both Armenia and Fars

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ALM unknown not in the Caucasus, Khurasan or Sistan Mitchiner's Armenia

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AM Amul (?) Khurasan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
APL Abarshahr Khurasan
AP

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
ARTArdashir-KhurraArdashir-Khurra District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ART(H)Sh(TR) --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AS uncertain site Khuzistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
ASP Spahan (Isfahan) Media
SPHAN

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AT Adurbadagan (?) Atrapatan (Azerbaijan) (?) Sears: may be blundered ST; probably not Adurbadagan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AW at or near Hormizd-Ardashir Khuzistan Mochiri's AO/AOH; Mitchiner's AU/AUH
AWH

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AY at or near Eran-khvarrah-Shapur Khuzistan Mitchiner's AI or AB; Gobl's AB

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AYL unknown Central Iraq or Northwestern Iran Mitchiner's AIR (Airan Khurra Shapuhr)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AYLA unknown unknown Mitchiner's AIRA (Airan Khurra Shapuhr)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AYLAN at or near Eran-asan-kar-Kavad (Hulwan) Media/Western District Mitchiner's AIRAN (Airan Khurra Shapuhr)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BBA Court Mint [itinerant] Mitchiner's BKhA (Balkh); Mochiri's BLX (Balkh)
KWN BBA

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BHL Balkh Khurasan Mochiri's BXL (Balkh); Schindel's GHL

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BN uncertain Kirman Sears' Veh-Ardashir; Mochiri's and Mitchiner's GN (Gondishapur)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BST Bust Sistan Peus 363, 5313

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BShHP --- --- SNS 3
BShHPW

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BWB --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BYN (?) unknown not in Kirman, Khurasan or Sistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYSh Bishapur Fars/Bishapur District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYShHPW --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYST --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
CACW Chach (?) Khurasan (?) From a unique coin of Hormazd IV, year 6, in Mochiri; who knows...

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DA Darabgird Fars/Darabgird District
DAL Peus 363, 5341 (Khusro II, year 25); this may be engraver error for NAL

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DALAPKR --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DL unknown unknown Mitchiner's Darabgird; Mochiri's KR

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DYNAW uncertain/Dinavar (?) Media (?) Gobl has this mint marked as Rayy
DYNAS
DYNAT
DYN

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GD Gay (Jayy) Media/Southern District A district of Isfahan; Mitchiner's GI; Mochiri's GY

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GLM unlocated Kirman Sears says possibly Bamm

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GNCKL Ganjak-Chez (?) Northern Provinces Peus 363, 5311
GNC

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GW at or near Goyman (?) Media Mitchiner's GU; Mochiri's GO (Gorgan)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GWD uncertain uncertain

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GWL --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GWLCAN uncertain Khurasan (?) Mochiri's GORZAN (Gorzevan)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GY Giruft Kirman

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
H unknown unknown; not Herat

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
HGL --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
HL Herat Khurasan
HLY
HLYDW
HLYDY

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
HLM Xolm (?) Khurasan Mochiri's XLM (Xolm)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
HWC Gunde-Shapur (?) Khuzistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
KA Karzi (?) Fars/Ardashir-Khurra District (?).

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
KAL --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
KALCYDY --- --- SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
KL in or near Shirajan (?) Kirman (?) 



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T. K. Mallon-McCorgray, July 1996

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