Elymais
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Elymais were a people who were subject to Parthian control from 200 BC to 200 AD, and was the name of the region they inhabited (roughly corresponding to the region named Susiana). It was reportedly these people were great archers and natives of Susa, which lies to the east of Elymais territory. It is not known if they where the descendants of the Elemites, who once had control of that area in the past, or what there relationship is with other cultures. Nothing is known of their language, even though "Elamite" was still used by the Achaemenid Empire 400 years before the Elymais came into existence.
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[edit] Coinage
The coins depicted a king, it isn't known whether this was a Parthian king or a local ruler as such information hasn't come to light through any means. But these coins were based on Greek standards, of debased Drachms and Tetradrachms [1]. The royal picture is generally based on "Parthian" coinage, usually with an anchor with star in crescent figure, but the reverse has only horizontal lines (this has led numismatists to believe that the engravers didn't know Greek or copied from coins whose writing was already unintelligible)[2].
[edit] The Kings
- Adapted from German Wikipedia
- Kamnaskires I Soter (ca. 147 BC)
- Kamnaskires II Nikephoros (ca. 145–139 BC)
- Okkonapses (ca 139 BC)
- Tigraios (138/37–133/32 BC)
- Kamnaskires III (82/81–75 BC)
- Kamnaskires IV (62/61 or 59/58 BC and 56/55 BC)
- Kamnaskires V and successors (36/35 BC)
- Orodes I (first half of the first century AD)
- Orodes II (second half of the first century AD)
- Kamnaskires-Orodes III (second half of the second century AD)
- Phraates (end of the first century or beginning of the second century AD)
- Oroes (?) (second century AD)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Geography/elamais.htm
- ^ http://www.parthia.com/parthia_coins_elymais.htm
