Sarpol-e Zahab (Persian: سرپل ذهاب, Sarpole Zahâb; Kurdish: Serpêllî Zehaw, سەرپێڵی زەهاو; also romanized as Sarpol-e Z̄ahāb, Sar-e Pol-e Z̄ahāb, and Sar-ī-Pūl Zūhāb; also known as Pol-e Z̄ahāb, Sarpole-Zahab, Pol-e Z̄ohāb, Sarī-Pūl, and Sarpol)[2] is a city and capital of Sarpol-e Zahab County, Kermanshah Province, Iran, close to the Iraqi border. At the 2006 census, its population was 34,632.[3]

Sarpol-e Zahab سرپل ذهاب
Town
Sarpol-e Zahab
Coordinates: 34°27′40″N 45°51′46″E
Country	Iran
Province	Kermanshah
County	Sarpol-e Zahab
Bakhsh	Central
Population  (2016 Census)
• Total	45,481[1]
Time zone	UTC+3:30 (IRST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+4:30 (IRDT)

Demographics

The city is populated by Kurds.[4]

Reliefs

The area of Sar-e Pol-e Zahab has several more or less well preserved reliefs of the Lullubi kingdom, as well as a Parthian relief.

Lullubian reliefs

The most famous of these reliefs is the Anubanini rock relief. Another relief named Sar-e Pol-e Zohab I is about 200 meters away, in a style similar to the Anubanini relief, but this time with a beardless ruler.[5] The attribution to a specific ruler remains uncertain.[5] There are also other Lullubian relief in the same area of Sar-e Pol-e Zahab.[6]

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  Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief I[5]
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  Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief II: Anubanini rock relief[5]
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  Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief III[5]
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  Sar-e Pol-e Zahab, relief IV[5]

Parthian relief

Another relief is located below the Anubanini relief, lower on the cliff. This relief was created during the Parthian Empire in the name of Gotarzes, possibly Gotarzes I, but more probably the Parthian king Gotarzes II, who ruled from 39 to 51 CE and is known to have made other reliefs, such as the equestrian relief at Behistun.[7][8]

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  The second relief, below the Anubanini relief, a Parthian relief.
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  Drawing of the Parthian relief.

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