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POLITICAL HISTORY OF PARTHIA
died in peace about 211 b.c. after a reign of thirty-seven years.[1] He left the throne to his son, whose name was apparently Artabanus (I).[2]
In the death of the powerful Tiridates, Antiochus III may have seen an opportunity to regain his eastern possessions; in any case in that same year he turned eastward[3] and advanced to Ecbatana (Hamadan), where loot from the temple of Anahita served to replenish his treasury.[4] In 209 b.c. Antiochus continued his eastward march along the great road with
- ↑ Arrian Parthica fr. 1, quoted in Syncellus, p. 539.
- ↑ Our only source, Trog. Pomp. xli, must be corrected, either by the substitution of the name Mithradates for Tigranes or by the rearrangement of the text as proposed by Gutschmid, Geschichte Irans, p. 81. Of the two, the substitution appears preferable. Gutschmid's rearrangement has been accepted by Th. Reinach, Mithridate Eupator (Paris, 1890), p. 310; Wroth, Parthia, pp. xxxi–xxxii; A. R. von Petrowicz, Arsaciden-Münzen (Wien, 1904), p. 9; J. de Morgan, Numismatique de la Perse antique. Fasc. 1. Introduction.—Arsacides (E. Babelon, Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines. III. Monnaies orientales. I 1), col. 85 and n. 2; and Ed. Meyer in Encyc. Brit. art. "Parthia." J. de Morgan and Meyer call the ruler in question Arsaces II. The following scholars have preferred the substitution: F. Justi, Iranisches Namenbuch(Marburg, 1895), pp. 31 and 412; Allotte de la Fuye, "Nouveau classement des monnaies arsacides," Rev. num., 1904, pp. 320–22; E. H. Minns, "Parchments of the Parthian Period from Avroman in Kurdistan," JHS, XXXV (1915), 40 f. and n. 58; Tarn, "Sel.-Parth. Studies," Proc. Brit. Acad., XVI (1930), 119 and n. 4.
- ↑ Polyb. ix. 43 shows Antiochus at the Euphrates in the fall of 211 b.c.; he invaded rebel Media and Parthia according to Appian Syr. i. 1.
- ↑ Polyb. x. 27.
ney in Persia," Geog. Journal, XXXVII (1911), 17 f., suggests Darra Gaz, some fifty miles northeast of Astrabad.
