The arch celebrated the Parthian victories of Septimius Severus and his sons Geta and Caracalla. |
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Daniel Okrent, the NYT's ombudsman through its crisis months departs this week, loosing a Parthian shot or two at his erstwhile employer. |
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Most structures were built in limestone gypsum and are an eclectic mix of Assyrian, Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman styles. |
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One of the figures, wearing a Phrygian cap, trousers or leggings, and a short cloak, is believed to be a Parthian. |
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Moving in his downfall, sadly dilapidated in his disgrace, Bosco delivers a threateningly Parthian shot that should leave no one unshuddering. |
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Two books written in Middle Persian from the Sassanide dynasty are left in which Parthian words are seen. |
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There also seems to be a reference to the intended Parthian expedition of Julius Caesar. |
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What was the exact place of ancient cuneiform culture in Uruk, and in Babylonia more generally, during the Hellenistic and Parthian periods? |
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Some parts of the Parthian palace are visible at the border between old and new city. |
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The Parthian structures have been identified as remains of the fortress, burial houses, or store-houses. |
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The term Parthian shot refers to the widespread horse-archer tactic of shooting backwards over the rear of their horses as they retreated. |
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At Ctesiphon Trajan crowned a new vassal king, but revolt was in the wind, and attempts to disunite the Parthian chiefs failed. |
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Mithridates, Parthian king, sends ambassadors to both Sulla and Wu-ti to provide an important link between Rome and China. |
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The importance of Old Nisa is also due to the fact that it was a sacred city of the Parthian kings. |
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Check out this collection of images of horses from Parthian coins. |
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Cuneiform writing by priests, who copied incantations and old religious texts, continued into the Parthian period. |
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Greek continued to be a lingua franca used by educated people in Mesopotamia well into the Parthian period. |
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In a Parthian shot, the departing president is wrapping himself in a spurious mantle of civil liberty. |
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There is evidence that the fortress was occupied during the Parthian and Sassanid dynasties, when it was a key economic and commercial centre. |
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Parthian scholars were involved in one of the first ever Buddhist text translations into the Chinese language. |
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The following year was devoted to suppressing Mesopotamia and other Parthian vassals who had backed Niger. |
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The Parthian capital Ctesiphon was sacked by the legions and the northern half of Mesopotamia was annexed to the Empire. |
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In that same year, he captured Seleucia and the Parthian capital Ctesiphon. |
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He defeated barbarian tribes in the Marcomannic Wars as well as the Parthian Empire. |
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Reaching Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, he ordered plundering and his army slew and captured many people. |
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Strict frontality is clearly evidenced in Parthian but also Early Byzantine art. |
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With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open-mouthed behind him. |
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Nevertheless, the heterogram ZY does in fact occur in the Parthian inscriptions of the Arsacid period. |
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The Parthian palace and a temple close to the ziggurat are architectural testimonies of this period. Presently, residential areas of the Parthian period are being excavated. |
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To show his complete independence he was the first of the Parthian sovereigns to do so he began issuing coins bearing his likeness wearing a royal diadem like the Seleucid kings. |
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From then on, warring in the Danube area became constant, while in the East, the Parthian threat was replaced by the Persian Empire pressing at the borders. |
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In the south was Characene, while to the northeast of Ctesiphon, which had supplanted Seleucia as the Parthian capital, was Garamea, with its capital at modern Kirkūk. |
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In their commanding monumentality, both reflected the influence of the Mathurān image of King Kaniṣka and the portrait sculpture of Sāsānian kings and Parthian notables. |
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The Parthian kings began their conquests at Nisa and turned small Parthia into a huge empire of the ancient world stretching from the Indus to the Euphrates. |
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What makes Old Nisa especially significant is the fact that it was built at the beginning of the Parthian Empire and it was destroyed when Parthia lost its political power. |
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In 92 bce Orobazes, an ambassador from Mithradates II, came to him seeking a treaty, but nothing was concluded, since instructions from Rome did not include negotiations with the Parthian power. |
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The same situation is true at Tell Sheikh Hamad, excavated by a German mission, where all periods between the beginnings of the Hellenistic period until Parthian times are represented. |
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Whilst these archaeological studies have increased knowledge of Parthian art and architecture, they have caused considerable damage to buried structures, which have been left open without protection. |
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The Parthian summer capital of Susa was apparently also occupied by the Romans. |
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To counter them, Legio V Macedonica, a veteran of the Parthian campaign, was moved from Moesia Inferior to Dacia Superior, closer to the enemy. |
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The first missionaries and translators of Buddhists scriptures into Chinese were either Parthian, Kushan, Sogdian, or Kuchean. |
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Near the end of his life, Caesar began to prepare for a war against the Parthian Empire. |
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The second concordance lists the fragments with texts in languages besides Sogdian, including Middle Persian, Parthian, Old Turkic, and Chinese. |
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Parthian understood Hellenization through Greco-Bactrian culture and Greekcities. |
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At Tell Barri, the Italian mission is making very interesting discoveries at a site, where the Achaemenid, Seleucid, and Parthian periods are present in the sequence. |
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Luxury ingredients were brought by the fleet from the far reaches of empire, from the Parthian frontier to the Straits of Gibraltar. |
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Beyond the frontiers, he secured the Empire with a buffer region of client states and made peace with the Parthian Empire through diplomacy. |
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Trajan's war against the Parthian Empire ended with the sack of the capital Ctesiphon and the annexation of Armenia and Mesopotamia. |
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Another hypothesis is that the rulers of Charax had expansionist designs on Parthian Babylon, giving them a rationale for alliance with Trajan. |
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Archaeologists hope that the discovery will give insight into the funerary traditions of the ancient Parthian Empire, which is also known as the Arsacid Empire. |
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The following year he led another, more successful campaign against the Parthian Empire, reportedly in retaliation for the support given to Pescennius Niger. |
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The third, fourth and the fifth salt mummies date back to the Achaemenid era while the sixth one belongs to either the Parthian or the Sassanid era. |
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At the time, they had settled the region north of the Black Sea and frequently raided the Parthian Empire and the Caucasian provinces of the Roman Empire. |
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Between 625 BC and 226 AD, the northern side was dominated by a succession of Persian empires including the Median, Achaemenid, Seleucid and Parthian empires. |
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It was also part of the Median, Achaemenid, Hellenistic, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, Ayyubid, Mongol, Safavid, Afsharid, and Ottoman empires. |
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