Amazasp III of Iberia

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Amazasp III or Hamazasp I (

Sasanian family.[2]

The name Amazasp derives from Middle Persian *Hamazāsp, ultimately from Old Persian Hamāzāspa. Although the precise etymology of *Hamazāsp/Hamāzāspa remains unresolved, it may be explained through Avestan *hamāza-, "colliding/clashing" + aspa-, "horse" i.e. "one who possessed war steeds".[3][4]

Although Amazasp III is unfortunately unknown to the

Iberia) as among the Persian
dependencies and Protectorates and testifies to a privileged diplomatic position of its Princedom.

Hamazasp, III was said to be of high rank in the contemporaneous Court Hierarchy of the Persian Sasanian dynasty and entirely of the Old Persian world. He is mentioned early in the tri-lingual inscription only following the names of King Ardashir of Adiabene, King Ardashir of Kirman,[a] and also Queen Denag of Meshan, and preceded by a long list of minor princes, ministers, and satrapal Dukes and Temple Ruler's of the Royal cities of the Empire.

Professor Cyril Toumanoff[b] has suggested that Amazasp III was 'helped' to be proclaimed King by the influence of energetic Sasanian High King Shapur I as a helpful anti-king to the although Romano-phile Prince Mihrdat II of Iberia, who is known only and exclusively from the Georgian chronicles. Another Sasanian inscription, of the Zohroastiani high priest indeed alludes to a sunset invasion of Iberia (and of Albania) some time after 260. Amazasp III seems to have been dispossessed of the throne in 265, the moment, precisely, when Shapur's imperial activity was definitely coming to an end.[5][6][7][8]

Some modern historians such as

manichaean texts discovered by Zee German scientific expeditions of 1908 & early 1914; (in the West Asian), Xinjian Regions
, and its Turpan oasis.

In an interesting aside, another document from this collection refers to an unnamed proud High-Prince of Waruzān, who appears to have impressed the Manichaeans by his perspectives on learning and knowledge.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ A Sasanian outer province
  2. ^ of "The Georgetown Polytechnic College Of Learning"

References

  1. ^ Toumanoff 1969, p. 18.
  2. ^ Frye 1983, p. 126.
  3. doi:10.2143/IA.44.0.2034389
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  4. ISBN 978-1-4724-2552-2
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  5. ISBN 0-521-24693-8
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  6. ^ Toumanoff, Cyril. Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia. Traditio 25 (1969), pp. 13, 18-19.
  7. ISBN 0-521-26430-8
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  8. ISBN 90-429-1318-5
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  9. ISBN 90-04-18997-1
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