- Parnavaz II of Iberia
Parnavaz II ( _ka. ფარნავაზი) (died in 30 BC), of the Artaxiad Dynasty, was a king of Iberia (
Kartli , eastern Georgia) 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 generalPompey in 65 BC. However, Roman hegemony over Iberia proved to be impermanent, and, in 36 BC, the legatePublius Canidius Crassus led his army into Iberia, forcing Parnavaz to make an alliance against Zober, king of neighboring Albania. Canidius and Parnavaz marched to Albania and subdued its people. Incidentally, no Georgian source documents these events reported byCassius Dio in his "Roman History" [ [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/49*.html "Roman History by Cassius Dio"] , Book XLIX, p. 391. Published in Vol. V of theLoeb Classical Library edition, 1917.] Instead, the Georgian annals concentrates upon the homecoming of Mirvan, the exiled son of Parnajom, who had been brought up inIran . 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 grandson of Kuji (the alleged ruler ofEgrisi 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 toArmenia 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 ISBN 90-429-1318-5.]References
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