Shapurdukhtak of Sakastan
Shapurdukhtak, also known as Shapurdukhtak II, was a Sasanian queen in the late 3rd and early 4th-centuries, who was the sister and wife of the Sasanian king Narseh.
She was the daughter of shah Shapur I, and is mentioned in his inscription at Ka'ba-ye Zartosht written in c. 262. She held the title of sagan banbishn, due to her husband Narseh serving as governor of Sakastan at that time. When Narseh ascended the throne in 293, he had an investiture relief made in Naqsh-e Rostam, where he is depicted as receiving the ring of kingship from a female figure that is frequently assumed to be the goddess Anahita. However, some scholars have suggested that this may be his queen, Shapurdukhtak.
