Vardanes II was the son of
Vologases I or
Vardanes I and briefly ruler of parts of the
Parthian Empire
The Parthian Empire (), also known as the Arsacid Empire (), was a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD. Its latter name comes from its founder, Arsaces I, who led the Parni tribe in conqu ...
. In ancient records he only appears in
Tacitus
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The surviving portions of his two major works—the ...
.
[Tacitus, ]Annals
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13,7 Otherwise he is only known from coins that are dated between 55 to 58 CE.
[Sellwood 1983, 295] He rebelled against Vologases I at
Seleucia
Seleucia (; grc-gre, Σελεύκεια), also known as or , was a major Mesopotamian city of the Seleucid empire. It stood on the west bank of the Tigris River, within the present-day Baghdad Governorate in Iraq.
Name
Seleucia ( grc-gre, ...
from about 55 to 58 CE and must have occupied
Ecbatana
Ecbatana ( peo, 𐏃𐎥𐎶𐎫𐎠𐎴 ''Hagmatāna'' or ''Haŋmatāna'', literally "the place of gathering" according to Darius I's inscription at Bisotun; Persian: هگمتانه; Middle Persian: 𐭠𐭧𐭬𐭲𐭠𐭭; Parthian: 𐭀 ...
, since he issued coins from the mint there, bearing the likeness of a young beardless king wearing a diadem with five pendants. Nothing more about him is known.
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58 deaths
1st-century Parthian monarchs
Year of birth unknown
1st-century Iranian people
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