Provincia Armenia in the Light of the Epigraphic Evidence

Michael Alexander Speidel

Provincia Armenia in the Light of the Epigraphic Evidence

Publication date: 02.07.2021

ELECTRUM, 2021, Volume 28, pp. 135 - 150

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.21.010.13368

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Provincia Armenia in the Light of the Epigraphic Evidence

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One very prominent context of the Pre-Christian history of Armenia of course lies with its relations with the great neighbouring empires of Parthia and Rome. These relations were mainly the result of Armenia’s geopolitical location between the two empires, its natural resources and its control of strategic long-distance routes. From a Roman point of view, Armenia certainly was the most important geopolitical concern in the East. Roman-Armenian relations therefore are a vast and complex subject, and their history extends over many centuries. In the years between 114 and 117 AD these relations assumed an extraordinary albeit short-lived condition when the kingdom of Greater Armenia became a Roman province. The present contribution reviews the Roman inscriptions that can be dated to this period, as well as the historical evidence they provide for the history of Greater Armenia as a Roman province.

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Armenia, Trajan, Roman History, Latin Epigraphy

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Information: ELECTRUM, 2021, Volume 28, pp. 135 - 150

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.21.010.13368

Article type: Original article

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Michael Alexander Speidel

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2201-6567

University of Warsaw, Poland

Zurich University, Switzerland

Published at: 02.07.2021

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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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* Research for this contribution was carried out in the context of the author’s fellowship no. UMO-2016/23/P/HS3/04141 of the National Science Centre, Poland. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665778.

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