TY - JOUR
TI - The Deities on the Kushano-Sasanian Coins
AU - Sinisi, Fabrizio
TI - The Deities on the Kushano-Sasanian Coins
AB - This article deals with Kushano-Sasanian coins, aiming to interpret the images of deities used on their reverses. The topic has occasionally been discussed in numismatic studies on the Kushano-Sasanian series, and some images have also been examined in archaeological literature on Central Asia. Yet Kushano-Sasanian religious imagery has never really been the subject of specific treatment. In fact, such series provide extremely interesting evidence of the religious imagery of the Sasanian period, due to the conventions which governed typological selection, since these allowed a more varied iconographic repertoire in comparison with what we can see on the imperial issues. Contrary to previous hypotheses of the phenomenon of syncretism produced by the supposed Bactrian religious specificity, the analysis results in a picture showing a fully Zoroastrian imagery, which absorbed iconographic features of Sasanian and Kushan derivation against the background of the presence of the new Sasanian power. 
VL - 2015
IS - Volume 22
PY - 2015
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 201
EP - 225
DO - 10.4467/20800909EL.15.011.3949
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/the-deities-on-the-kushano-sasanian-coins
KW - Kushano-Sasanians
KW - Kushanshahs
KW - Sasanians
KW - numismatics
KW - religious iconography
KW - Iranian deities
KW - Zoroastrian imagery.