Wilhelm Müseler. “The Dating and the Sequence of the Persid Frataraka Revisited”

The author takes into consideration the coinage of Persis, an autonomous region in southern Iran during the Seleucid rule, later a vassal kingdom under the Arsacids. In particular, the first group of issues, those mint by of the so-called frataraka, local dignitaries who had not yet adopted the title of kings, is analysed. The author defends the early chronology that places the first frataraka, Ardaxsher in the first decades of the 3rd century BCE. The main reasons for this choice, that puts ..