Editing Shapur III (section)

== Klimova plate ==
The "Klimova Plate" (part of the [[Klimova Treasure]]), is a silver vessel located in the [[Hermitage Museum]], which depicts a king slaying a leopard. His crown is highly identical to that of Shapur III. The crown is topped by the traditional ''korymbos'', a globe-like cloth.{{sfn|Harper|Meyers|1981|p=74}} The king is wearing a dress identical to that of the plate of Yazdegerd I located in the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].{{sfn|Harper|Meyers|1981|p=75}} A [[Sogdian language|Sogdian]] inscription from the 7th or 8th-century is inscribed on its reverse.{{sfn|Harper|Meyers|1981|p=74}} While Harper and Meyers in their book ''Silver Vessels of the Sasanian Period: Royal Imagery'' (1981) consider the king to possibly represent Shapur III,{{sfn|Harper|Meyers|1981|pp=74–75}} the ''[[The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity|Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity]]'' (2018) considers it be him.{{sfn|Hunter-Crawley|2018|pp=1158}}