Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum

The Seal of a Eunuch in the Sasanian Court

“…The simplified "rectangle open to the right" form found on some coins, however, must be based on the form seen on our seal and must therefore have been common already in the first half of the third century. 25 We can also compare the forms of h, as c is often identical with h plus a "foot;" an h looking like our c is found, for instance, on several of the seals discussed by Gyselen. 26 The form of the name, bōxt plus royal name, recalls Kerdīr's honorific title bōxt-ruwān-warahrān, which I have interpreted as "he whose soul was saved by Warahrān, " where the name Warahrān obviously refers to the king, but also, in my opinion, to the king assuming the role of the prince who, together with the queen assuming the role of the dēn, guides "Kerdīr's likeness" across the bridge in the relief at Sar Mashhad.…”

“…stāna-"stable" (see Videvdad 15. [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. In Old Persian, these derivatives were probably integrated into the productive type of derivation by means of suffix -i and lengthening of the first vowel seen, for instance, in Old Persian bāgayādi-, month named after the *baga-yāda-, "sacrifice to the god(s)" and Avestan māzdaiiasni-"belonging to a mazda-iiasna."…”

Sasanidische Stempelsiegel aus dem Archäologischen Museum der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, Münster

“…Hier sind jene Münzen, die in seine frühe Regierungszeit datieren, noch mit nach links gewandtem Profil dargestellt, jene, die in eine spätere Zeit zu datieren sind, zeigen ein nach rechts ausgerichtetes Profil; vgl. M. Alram -R. Gyselen (2003), 135-138.…”