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A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian king: the message behind a new statue in Tehran

By Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University

The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery come from? And why now?

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