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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 4556677, member: 81887&quot;][USER=108806]@Alwin[/USER] : You are correct, my first coin is indeed Sellwood 47.32, not 47.10.&nbsp; Those of you keeping score at home, please adjust your cards accordingly.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] for the link which gives translations of surviving sources by the Parthians themselves.&nbsp; As you can see if you go there, those are not very extensive reading.&nbsp; Not exactly page-turners.&nbsp; There are also some Bablylonian astronomical tablets that parenthetically include historical information (usually in a format roughly similar to &quot;In the year xxx when King Artabanos defeated his brother, there was an occultation of Venus in...&quot;).&nbsp; Dr. Assar has made a lot of use of these tablets in his work, but again, they&#039;re not detailed histories.&nbsp; If the Parthian ever wrote detailed, lengthy narrative histories of themselves, they have not survived.</p><p><br /></p><p>The main surviving narrative sources are from the Roman world.&nbsp; (The Sasanians mostly ignored their Parthian predecessors.)&nbsp; Tacitus (Annals), Josephus (Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War), Plutarch (especially the Lives of Sulla and Crassus), and Herodian (Histories) among others include material on Parthian history, usually when it impacts their main narratives.&nbsp; Pompeius Trogus wrote a Phillipic History, now lost, only parts of which have survived as an Epitome by a later writer named Justin, and this has been an important source.&nbsp; However, the Epitome is a badly blundered document (one historian once said &quot;I wouldn&#039;t trust Justin to get his own name right&quot;), so it has to be used with caution.&nbsp; The best, most readable narrative that stitches together all the classical sources is probably George Rawlinson&#039;s &quot;The Sixth Oriental Monarchy&quot;, written in 1861.&nbsp; (It&#039;s available as a free online text through Project Gutenberg, or there are inexpensive modern reprints on Amazon and elsewhere.)&nbsp; I have a slightly later edition that combines it with his &quot;Seventh Oriental Monarchy&quot; (on the Sasanians), and it&#039;s good reading, though of course it is out of date in certain places as you would expect for a book that is nearly 120 years old.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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