Yazdan-Friy Shapur or Yazdan-Friy-Shabuhr (

Middle Persian Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle ...

: ''yazdān-friy-šābuhr'',

New Persian New Persian ( fa, فارسی نو), also known as Modern Persian () and Dari (), is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th to 9th centuries until now in Greater Iran and surroundings. It is conventionally divided into thr ...

: ''یزدان‌فرای شاپور'') was a 4th-century

Sasanian The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...

queen ('' banbishn'') and the wife of the Sasanian king (

shah Shah (; fa, شاه, , ) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Iranian monarchies.Yarshater, EhsaPersia or Iran, Persian or Farsi, ''Iranian Studies'', vol. XXII no. 1 (1989) It was also used by a variety of ...

)

Shapur III Shapur III ( pal, 𐭱𐭧𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭥𐭩 ), was the Sasanian Empire, Sasanian King of Kings () of Iran from 383 to 388. He was the son of Shapur II () and succeeded his uncle Ardashir II (). His reign was largely uneventful; to the west, ...

(). She has been immortalized by an

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seal of remarkable quality, where she is shown wearing the horns of a ram. The seal is now in the

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* {{cite journal , last=Muzio, first=Ciro Lo, title=Remarks on the Paintings from the Buddhist Monastery of Fayaz Tepe (Southern Uzbekistan) , journal=Bulletin of the Asia Institute , date=2008, volume=22, pages=189–208, url=https://www.academia.edu/3586155, url-access=registration 4th-century Iranian people 4th-century deaths Sasanian queens 4th-century women