This state destroyed image temples and mandated uniform religious art according to Mary Boyce’s influential “iconoclasm” thesis. A kingmaking priest of this state left an inscription bragging about wiping out religious minorities and executed a painter who evoked Jesus by entering a university city on a donkey. A colossal statue of a (-5[1])ruler of this state carved from a single limestone stalactite is identifiable by its crown and korymbos. The priests Tansar and (*) Kartir consolidated the official religion under this state’s (10[1])first rulers. In this state, rabbinical scholars at Sura and (10[1])Pumbedita (-5[1])published (-5[1])the Babylonian Talmud. This state, which crushed a proto-socialist heresy led by Mazdak, (10[1])backed (10[1])the Nestorian Church after Chalcedon in cities like Nisibis and Gundeshapur. For 10 points, magi completed the Avesta under Shapur II in what final (10[1])Zoroastrian empire of Persia? ■END■ (10[3])