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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob L., post: 3464544, member: 56976&quot;]This is indeed murky stuff. Parthicus has a better handle on this than I. Perhaps he’ll chime in.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reattributions were posited by Dr. G.R.F. Assar. His research was initially spread across multiple articles/periodicals, many included here: <a href="http://parthian-empire.com/articleListPage.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://parthian-empire.com/articleListPage.php" rel="nofollow">http://parthian-empire.com/articleListPage.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Some of it was published in a three part article in <i>The Celator</i> (December 2000, January 2001, and February 2001):</p><p><a href="https://community.vcoins.com/celator-vol-13-no-12-2/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.vcoins.com/celator-vol-13-no-12-2/" rel="nofollow">https://community.vcoins.com/celator-vol-13-no-12-2/</a></p><p><a href="https://community.vcoins.com/6239-2/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.vcoins.com/6239-2/" rel="nofollow">https://community.vcoins.com/6239-2/</a></p><p><a href="https://community.vcoins.com/celator-vol-15-no-02/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.vcoins.com/celator-vol-15-no-02/" rel="nofollow">https://community.vcoins.com/celator-vol-15-no-02/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Assar had said, in a remembrance shortly after his friend David Sellwood’s passing, that he would complete the third edition of <i>The Coinage of Parthia</i> that Sellwood had been working on at the time of his death. Presumably that edition would have all of Assar’s reattributions. Maybe it will still happen, although I wonder if the <i>Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum</i>, a multiyear project currently underway, may have stolen his thunder.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any event, the essay Assar wrote for the <i>Numismatic Art of Persia: The Sunrise Collection</i>, is the best encapsulation of his research – all in one place. The essay is entitled &quot;Iran Under the Arsakids, 247 BC - AD 224/227.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Thankfully Parthia.com has finally added a Sunrise column to its &quot;Attribution Correlation Chart&quot; at: <a href="http://parthia.com/parthia_corr.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://parthia.com/parthia_corr.htm" rel="nofollow">http://parthia.com/parthia_corr.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Out of frustration I had actually begun, some time ago, such a correlation chart for Sunrise. I’m pleased Parthia.com went ahead and posted one. Saves me the trouble of completing mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, as if to add to the confusion, Parthia.com&#039;s chart’s Sunrise equivalent to S.81 (Parthamaspates) is erroneously listed as “Sinatruces” instead of what Assar asserted in the article, “the anti-Roman Arsakid prince Sanatrukes, the nephew of Osroes I and the leader of the Parthian forces in Mesopotamia in AD 116.” To be clear: Sinatrukes (a.k.a. Sinatruces, the elder son of Mithradates I) and Sanatrukes (Sanatruces, nephew of Osroes I) are not the same individual.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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