Notes for Sinatruces ARSHAKUNI


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Sinatruces
Great King
Coin of Sinatruces, Ray mint (2).jpg
Coin of Sinatruces, Ray mint
King of the Parthian Empire
Reign	c. 75 - 69 BC
Predecessor	Orodes I
Successor	Phraates III
Born	c. 158 BC
Died	69 BC (aged 90)
Issue	Phraates III
Dynasty	Arsacid dynasty
Father	Mithridates I (?)
Religion	Zoroastrianism
Sinatruces (also spelled Sinatrukes or Sanatruces) was king of the Parthian
Empire from c. 75 BC to c. 69 BC.[a] He was presumably a son of the
Parthian ruler Mithridates I (r. 171-132 BC). Sinatruces was succeeded by his
son Phraates III.

Contents
1	Reign
2	Coinage
3	Notes
4	References
5	Sources
Reign
The Parthian Empire had since the death of Mithridates II (r. 124-88 BC)
fallen into a state of turmoil and decline; the authority of the crown had
decreased, while the empire lost lands to its neighbours.[2] Sinatruces, who
originally resided amongst the Saka of Central Asia, took advantage of the
chaotic situation in the empire, and with the aid of the Saka captured the
Parthian throne in c. 75 BC, at the age of eighty.[3] The name of the
Arsacid branch established by Sinatruces on the Parthian throne has been
coined by the modern historian Marek Jan Olbrycht as the "Sinatrucids", which
ruled the Parthian Empire till 12 AD.[4] The Sinatrucid family was notably
supported by the Suren clan of Sakastan.[5]

During Sinatruces' reign, the Artaxiad king of Armenia, Tigranes the Great (r.
95-55 BC), took advantage of the weakness of the Parthians, and retook the
"seventy valleys" he had previously ceded to Mithridates II, and also went to
conquer the Parthian domains of Media Atropatene, Gordyene, Adiabene, Osroene,
and northern Mesopotamia.[6] Sinatruces died in 69 BC and was succeeded by his
son Phraates III.[7] The modern historian Saghi Gazerani has come up with the
hypothesis that the story of the legendary Iranian monarch Zav Tahmasp
includes echoes of the life of Sinatruces.[8]
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