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Ubouzanes (
Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
: ΥΒΟΥΖΑΝΗϹ ''Ubouzanēs'' (epigraphic)) was a ruler of the remnants of the
Indo-Parthian Kingdom The Indo-Parthian Kingdom was a Parthian kingdom founded by Gondophares, and active from 19 CE to c. 226 CE. At their zenith, they ruled an area covering parts of eastern Iran, various parts of Afghanistan and the northwest regions of the Indian s ...
in
Arachosia Arachosia () is the Hellenized name of an ancient satrapy situated in the eastern parts of the Achaemenid empire. It was centred around the valley of the Arghandab River in modern-day southern Afghanistan, and extended as far east as the ...
in the first century CE. He was the son of Orthagnes.Christine Fröhlich.
Indo-Parthian Dynasty
" ''Encyclopædia Iranica.''
He was unknown until the late 20th century when a hoard of coins was found in
Jammu Jammu is the winter capital of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is the headquarters and the largest city in Jammu district of the union territory. Lying on the banks of the river Tawi, the city of Jammu, with an area of ...
.
Joe Cribb Joe Cribb is a numismatist, specialising in Asian coinages, and in particular on coins of the Kushan Empire. His catalogues of Chinese silver currency ingots, and of ritual coins of Southeast Asia were the first detailed works on these subjects ...
first analyzed them in 1985, discovering some belonged to a new ruler. Cribb placed him between Orthagnes and
Pacores Pacores or Pakores (Greek alphabet, Greek: ΠΑΚΟΡΗϹ ''Pakorēs''; Kharosthi: 𐨤𐨐𐨂𐨪 ', '; Imperial Aramaic, Aramaic: pkwry) (100–135 AD) was a king who ruled the remnants of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom in Arachosia from 100–130 ...


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{{reflist Indo-Parthian kings 2nd-century monarchs in Asia 2nd-century Iranian people Zoroastrian rulers