court, Persian royal
Like *Sasanian *administration in general, the Persian royal court evolved from *Ardashir I’s pre-imperial provincial court and adopted many structural and compositional aspects of the Arsacid court that it subsumed. The composition of the Sasanian court changed over the course of the Empire as the Kings of Kings consolidated central power at the expense of provincial kings.... ...
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