Artabanus III

Artabanus III

▪ king of Parthia

flourished 1st century AD

      king of Parthia (reigned c. AD 12–c. 38).

      At first king of Media Atropatene, Artabanus III took the Parthian throne in AD 9 or 10 from Vonones (Vonones I) and was proclaimed king about two years later in Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital on the Tigris River. Vonones fled to Armenia, but Artabanus forced him to abdicate in AD 15 or 16. During the first part of Artabanus' reign there was peace with Rome. Although faced with internal unrest, he was apparently a strong king and helped restore the authority of the central government. A letter written by Artabanus in December of 21 to the magistrates and the city of Susa is the only Arsacid royal document that has been preserved.

      On the death of Artaxias III (Zeno) of Armenia (AD 34/35), Artabanus set his son, known only as Arsaces, on the Armenian throne. Two Parthian nobles, apparently restless at Artabanus' assertion of central authority, applied to the Roman emperor Tiberius for a king from among the descendants of an earlier king, Phraates IV. Thus, a grandson of Phraates, Tiridates III, arrived in Syria in AD 35 and was set on the Parthian throne by the Roman general Lucius Vitellius. Artabanus withdrew to Hyrcania, but within a year he was summoned by the anti-Roman party, returned, and won back his throne. The struggle had evidently weakened Parthia internally; large areas and some of the great commercial centres seem to have become independent of the crown. The general discontent drove Artabanus into flight again, and he took refuge with his vassal Izates II of Adiabene while a certain Cinnamus occupied the Parthian throne. Artabanus was restored by negotiation but died soon afterward.

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