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Reinhard Pirngruber, « Irene Madreiter, Udo Hartmann. “Women at the Arsacid Court” », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.53349
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This contribution provides a succinct summary of our (scarce) knowledge of Arsacid queens. The authors make a case for a rather limited role of women at court, with Mousa, a former concubine turned queen(-mother) constituting a conspicuous exception, and interpret the appearance of queens in date formulas in cuneiform documents and the Avrōmān parchments as a reflection of the importance of the royal family and dynastic principles. Marriage strategies of the Arsacids, including both consangui...