- Amazasp III of Iberia
Amazasp III ( _ka. ამაზასპ III, Latinized as "Amazaspus") was a king of Iberia (natively known as
Kartli ; ancient Georgia) from260 to265 A.D. . He probably belonged to the Arsacid dynasty.Amazasp is unknown to the medieval Georgian literary tradition, although the Georgian chronicles do record two earlier kings named Amazasp (Georgian form of the Persian Hamazasp). However, Amazasp is attested in the contemporaneous
Sassanid epigraphic sources. The trilingual inscription fromKa'ba-ye Zartosht lists Iberia among Iran’s vassals and testifies to a privileged position of its king, Hamazasp, in the hierarchy of the Sassanid court in which he follows King Ardashir ofAdiabene , King Ardashir ofCarmania , and Queen Denag ofMesene , and precedes a long list of princes, ministers, andsatrap s of the royal cities. ProfessorCyril Toumanoff ofGeorgetown University suggested that Amazasp was installed by the energetic Sassanidshah Shapur I as aantiking to the Romanophile kingMihrdat II of Iberia who is known exclusively from the Georgian chronicles. Another Sassanid inscription, that of thehigh priest Kartir indeed alludes to an Iranian invasion of Iberia (and of Albania) some time after 260. Amazasp seems to have been dispossessed of the throne in 265, the moment, precisely, when Shapur’s imperial activity was definitely coming to an end. [W.B. Fischer, Ilya Gershevitch, Ehsan Yarshster (ed., 1993), "The Cambridge History of Iran", p. 708.Cambridge University Press , ISBN 0521246938.] [Toumanoff, Cyril. Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia. "Traditio" 25 (1969), pp. 13, 18-19.] [I E S Edwards (2005), "The Cambridge Ancient History", p. 489.Cambridge University Press , ISBN 0521264308.] Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), "Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts", p. 293. Peeters Bvba ISBN 90-429-1318-5.]References
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