Parnavaz II ( ka, ფარნავაზი) (died 30 BC), of the
Artaxiad Dynasty, was a king of
Iberia
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Kartli
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, eastern
Georgia
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) from 63 to 30 BC. He is known as Pharnabazus in
Classical sources, and is commonly identified with the Bartom or Bratman of the medieval Georgian chronicles.
He succeeded upon the death of his father
Artag who had been defeated by the
Roman
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general
Pompey
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in 65 BC. However, Roman hegemony over Iberia proved to be impermanent, and, in 36 BC, the
legate
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Publius Canidius Crassus
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led his army into Iberia, forcing Parnavaz to make an alliance against Zober, king of neighboring
Albania
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. Canidius and Parnavaz marched to Albania and subdued its people. Incidentally, no Georgian source documents these events reported by
Cassius Dio
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in his ''Roman History'' Instead, the Georgian annals concentrates upon the homecoming of
Mirvan, the exiled son of
Parnajom, who had been brought up in
Iran
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. Mirvan returned to Kartli at the head of an Iranian army, killed Bartom and became a king.
Bartom is said to have adopted
Kartam, the descendant of
Kuji
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(the alleged ruler of
Egrisi in the time of the first Iberian king
Parnavaz). But Kartam had also been killed in battle against Mirvan. Nevertheless, Kartam’s pregnant wife – the daughter of Bartom – fled to
Armenia
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where she gave birth to a son named Aderki.
[ Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), ''Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts'', p. 284. Peeters Bvba .]
References
30 BC deaths
Kings of Iberia
Caucasian Albania
1st-century BC rulers in Asia
Year of birth unknown
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