Tiraios II was a king who ruled from about 79/78 to 49/48 BC the state of Characene, a vassal state of the Parthians.[1][2]
Like most kings of Characene he is known only from numismatic sources,[3] in his case his silver and bronze coins.
He was also mentioned by Lucian of Samosata,[4] who says of him that he lived till 92.
His coinage indicates he was hellenised. He was the first king of Charakene to call himself Soter.[5]
One of his coins overstrikes a coin of a king Hippokrates Autokrator Nikephoros. The latter might be an usurpator in the Charakene.[6]
References
edit- ^ Monika Schuol : The Characene. Ein mesopotamisches Königreich in hellenistisch-parthischer Zeit . A Mesopotamian kingdom in Hellenistic-Parthian period. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07709-X , ( Oriens et Occidens 1), (Zugleich: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1998), S. 221–222, 303–306. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07709-X (Oriens et Occidens 1), (Also: Kiel University, Ph.D. thesis, 1998.), pp. 221-222, 303-306.
- ^ E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press page 487
- ^ Richard Nelson Frye, The History of Ancient Iran, Volume 3, Part 7. C.H.Beck Publishers. page 277
- ^ Lucian, Macrobii, 15
- ^ Monika Schuol : Die Charakene. Monika Schuol : The Charakene, A Mesopotamian kingdom in Hellenistic-Parthian period. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000
- ^ G.R.F. Assar: A New Hellenistic Ruler from Early 1st Century BC: King [Hip]pokrates Autokrator Nikephoros, in: Portraits: 400 Years of Hellenistic Portraits/400 Jahre hellenistische Portraits. Staatliche Münzsammlung München. Editor/Herausgeber: Dr. Andreas Pangerl. Publisher: Verlag: Staatliche Münzsammlung Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3-922840-41-1, p. 340