Sasan

Sasan
Zoroastrian High Priest
Founder of the Sasanian Empire
Reign3rd century
IssueArdashir I
Names
Sasan
DynastySasanian Dynasty
ReligionZoroastrianism
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Sasan (Middle Persian 𐭮𐭠𐭮𐭠𐭭 Sāsān > Persian ساسان), considered the eponymous ancestor of the Sasanian (or Sassanid) Dynasty (ruled 224-651) in Persia, was "a great warrior and hunter" and a Zoroastrian high priest in Pars. He lived sometime near the fall of the Arsacid (Parthian) Empire in the early 3rd century.