Tiraios II

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Coin of Tiraios II.
Characene 51BC

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

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

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

  1. ISBN 3-515-07709-X
    (Oriens et Occidens 1), (Also: Kiel University, Ph.D. thesis, 1998.), pp. 221-222, 303-306.
  2. ^ E. Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran, Cambridge University Press page 487
  3. ^ Richard Nelson Frye, The History of Ancient Iran, Volume 3, Part 7. C.H.Beck Publishers. page 277
  4. ^ Lucian, Macrobii, 15
  5. ^ Monika Schuol : Die Charakene. Monika Schuol : The Charakene, A Mesopotamian kingdom in Hellenistic-Parthian period. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000
  6. ISBN 978-3-922840-41-1
    , p. 340
Preceded by King of Characene
79/78 to 49/48 BC 		Succeeded by
Artabazos I
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