Noumenios

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Location of Antiochia in Susiana, capital of Characene.
Sidon coinage of Antiochos IV, depicting a victorious galley, which may relate to the naval victories of Noumenios.[1]
Noumenios was Seleucid satrap of Characene.

Noumenios (

before 190-189 BCE, date of the Battle of Magnesia where Antiochos III was vanquished by the Romans.[2][3] Alternatively, these events may have taken place during the reign of Antiochos IV.[1]

Pliny writes:

"Noumenios, who was made governor of Mesene by king Antiochos, while fighting against the Persians, defeated them at sea, and at low water, by land, with an army of cavalry, on the same day; in memory of which event he erected a twofold trophy on the same spot, in honour of Jupiter and Neptune"

— Pliny, HN 6.152.[2][3]

This event is often used to describe some kind of adversary relationship between the

terminus ante quem.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Arsacids and Sasanians, by Rahim Shayegan. p. 167.
  2. ^ a b c Engels, David. Iranian Identity and Seleucid Allegiance; Vahbarz, the Frataraka and Early Arsacid Coinage, in: K. Erickson (ed.), The Seleukid Empire, 281-222 BC. War within the Family, Swansea, 2018, 173-196.
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