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Shapur cave

UNESCO World Heritage Site
Location	Fars Province, Iran
Criteria	Cultural: ii, iii
Reference	1222
Inscription	2018 (42nd Session)

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Shapur cave (Persian: غار شاپور) is located in the Zagros Mountains, in southern Iran.^{[citation needed]} This cave is near Kazerun in the Chogan valley.

In the cave, on the fourth of five terraces, stands the statue of Shapur I, the second ruler of the Sasanid Empire. The statue was carved from one stalagmite.^[1] The height of statue is 7 metres and its shoulders are 2 meters wide, and its arms are 3 meters long.^[1]

About 1400 years ago, after the Muslim conquest of Persia and collapse of the Sasanian Empire, the statue was pulled down and a part of one of its legs was broken. About 70 years ago, again, parts of his arms were also broken in an earthquake. The statue had been lying on the ground for about 14 centuries until 1957 when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, had a group of Iranian military to raise it again on its feet and repair the broken foot with iron and cement.^[2]

There are two inscriptions in the cave, one translates Shapur's own inscription on the Naqsh-e Rajab. The other is about the restoration of the statue by the Royal Iranian army under the Shah.^[2]

• Sasanid architecture
• Naqsh-e Rustam