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POLITICAL HISTORY OF PARTHIA

the temples of "Athena" and Artemis alone is reported as ten thousand talents,^[1] and no doubt there were others. The city of Seleucia (Mange?), formerly Solace, on the Hedyphon (Jarrāḥī) River was captured.^[2] Since the Parthians were established in Susa shortly after the death of Mithradates,^[3] that territory was probably added to the empire by the Great King himself. Mithradates died peaceably in 138/37 b.c., the first Parthian date fixed accurately by numismatic and cuneiform evidence."^[4]

↑ Strabo xvi. 1. 18. Note that Justin xli. 6. 7–8 mentions the campaign in Elymais after that in Hyrcania. There was a temple of Artemis on the Eulaeus River below Susa; see Pliny Hist. nat. vi. 135 and PW, art. "Eulaios." The Eulaeus is the modern Karun.
↑ Strabo xvi. 1. 18. For the identifications see PW, 2d ser., IV, col. 2561, "Σελεύκεια," No. 13.
↑ F. Cumont, "Nouvelles inscriptions grecques de Suse," CR, 1932, p. 281, dated to 130 b.c. J. M. Unvala, "Inventaire des monnaies recueillies dans les fouilles," Mém. Miss. archéol. de Perse, XXV (1934), 115, No. 129, publishes without illustration a coin of Mithradates I from Susa, "161 Sél. = 152/151 ap.(!) J.-C.," actually 151/50 b.c.
↑ Wroth, Parthia, p. 15. Dates on Parthian coinage throughout this volume are computed on the basis of the Babylonian calendar, with New Year on 1 Nisan (April), and of the Seleucid era, which began in Babylonia in 311 b.c. For numismatic proof of the use of the Babylonian calendar see Robert H. McDowell, Coins from Seleucia on the Tigris ("University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series," XXXVII [Ann Arbor, 1935]), pp. 147–53, and review by E. T. Newell in AJA, XLI (1937), 515–17. A tablet from Uruk dated "day 8, year 109 Arisak, equals year 173(?)," i.e., 139/38 b.c., is published by A. T. Clay, Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan. II. Legal Documents from Erech Dated in the Seleucid Era (New York, 1913), No. 52. His No. 53, without year but written by the same scribe, is dated in the reign of Arsakʾu and Ri-⸢in⸣(?)-nu his mother, who was regent. This king must be the successor of Mithradates. Cf. also Justin xli. 6. 9.

[1] Strabo xvi. 1. 18. Note that Justin xli. 6. 7–8 mentions the campaign in Elymais after that in Hyrcania. There was a temple of Artemis on the Eulaeus River below Susa; see Pliny Hist. nat. vi. 135 and PW, art. "Eulaios." The Eulaeus is the modern Karun.

[2] Strabo xvi. 1. 18. For the identifications see PW, 2d ser., IV, col. 2561, "Σελεύκεια," No. 13.

[3] F. Cumont, "Nouvelles inscriptions grecques de Suse," CR, 1932, p. 281, dated to 130 b.c. J. M. Unvala, "Inventaire des monnaies recueillies dans les fouilles," Mém. Miss. archéol. de Perse, XXV (1934), 115, No. 129, publishes without illustration a coin of Mithradates I from Susa, "161 Sél. = 152/151 ap.(!) J.-C.," actually 151/50 b.c.

[4] Wroth, Parthia, p. 15. Dates on Parthian coinage throughout this volume are computed on the basis of the Babylonian calendar, with New Year on 1 Nisan (April), and of the Seleucid era, which began in Babylonia in 311 b.c. For numismatic proof of the use of the Babylonian calendar see Robert H. McDowell, Coins from Seleucia on the Tigris ("University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series," XXXVII [Ann Arbor, 1935]), pp. 147–53, and review by E. T. Newell in AJA, XLI (1937), 515–17. A tablet from Uruk dated "day 8, year 109 Arisak, equals year 173(?)," i.e., 139/38 b.c., is published by A. T. Clay, Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan. II. Legal Documents from Erech Dated in the Seleucid Era (New York, 1913), No. 52. His No. 53, without year but written by the same scribe, is dated in the reign of Arsakʾu and Ri-⸢in⸣(?)-nu his mother, who was regent. This king must be the successor of Mithradates. Cf. also Justin xli. 6. 9.

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