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48 Tigranes, and allied himself with Mithradates of Pontus.

Some business documents dated in the reign of Arsaces, king of kings, with a date corresponding to 93, and astronomical ephemerides dated under Arsaces in years corresponding to 92/91 suggest that Mithradates was then in control of Babylonia. But early in 91 a Gotarzes (I), king, with his queens Ashiʾabatum and another whose name we cannot read, appears on tablets from Babylon. Gotarzes, the former satrap of satraps, had now set