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Tigranes, and allied himself with Mithradates of Pontus.[1]
Some business documents dated in the reign of Arsaces, king of kings, with a date corresponding to 93 b.c.,[2] and astronomical ephemerides dated under Arsaces in years corresponding to 92/91 b.c.[3] suggest that Mithradates was then in control of Babylonia. But early in 91 b.c.[4] a Gotarzes (I), king, with his queens Ashiʾabatum and another whose name we cannot read,[5] appears on tablets from Babylon. Gotarzes, the former satrap of satraps, had now set
- ↑ Appian Mith. 15.
- ↑ R. Campbell Thompson, A Catalogue of the Late Babylonian Tablets in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (London, 1927), pp. 28 f.; Strassmaier in ZA, III (1888), 133 f.
- ↑ 156 a.e., [220] s.e., on one; 15[6] a.e., [220] s.e., on the other. See Kugler, Sternkunde, II, 500.
- ↑ The date in Reisner, Hymnen, No. 51, was miswritten by the ancient scribe as 6 II Addaru, 155 a.e., 221 s.e.; but since 155 a.e. had no second Addaru the Arsacid date must be changed to 157 to correspond to the correct Seleucid one. The Arsaces of this hymn is almost certainly Gotarzes, for in 89 b.c. Queen Ashiʾabatum appears as his consort; see ZA, VI (1891), 222.
- ↑ Reisner, loc. cit. Minns, "Avroman Parchments," JHS, XXXV (1915), 34 f. texts h-j, transliterates the gašan sign as bêltu ("lady"), whereas ibid., p. 35, n, and p. 36, p, he transliterates exactly the same sign as šarratu ("queen"). This is correct, though confusing, for the gašan sign may be transliterated either way; but Tarn in CAH, IX, 587, attempts to deduce historical evidence on the basis of the titles bêltu and šarratu! Strassmaier in ZA, VIII (1893), 112, the source for both Minns and Tarn, was aware of the double value: ". . . . bilit (oder: šarratu)."
Papyri (Berlin, 1920), pp. 120–24; J. M. Unvala, "On the Three Parchments from Avroman in Kurdistan," Bull. School of Or. Studies, I (1920), 125–44.
