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The Drachms of the Parthian “Dark Age”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

David Sellwood
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When set against our knowledge of contemporary Greece and Rome, the whole of Parthian history may be termed a “Dark Age”. Even so, within the four centuries of Arsacid domination, the accidents of discovery and the efforts of scholarship have illuminated some periods more than others. Of the latter, one, running between the death of Mithradates II in about 88 B.C. and the accession of Orodes II some thirty years later, has proved peculiarly impenetrable.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 108 , Issue 1 , January 1976 , pp. 2 - 25
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1976

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