Bust of Bahram II to right, wearing a winged crown with a great korymbos on top; long beard and thick tufts of curly hair at the back; two ribbons rising from behind head, facing a small bust to left, wearing a headdress with horse` (?) head; deteriorated legend along the dotted rim running anticlockwise from 11 h to 1 h, `mzdysn bgy wrhrʾn MRKAn MRKA ʾyrʾn W ʾnyrʾn MNW ctry MN yzdʾn` = `mazdēsn bay Wahrām šāhān šāh Ērān ud Anērān kē čihr az ya (a)dān` (`The Mazda-worshipping Lord, Bahram, King of Kings of the Iranians and Non-Iranians, whose essence is from the gods`).
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Inscriptional Pahlavi
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Fire altar flanked by two regal attendants holding scepters and wearing different crowns; to right and left deteriorated legend, `NWRA ZY ˗ wrhrʾn` = `ādur ī Wahrām` (`Fire of Bahram`); the so-called `symbol of the heir` in the upper field to the left of the flames.
