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Antiochus = king of Syria (1)

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Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
Designation of the Seleucid Empire as Syria/Assyria
12 Assyrian Identity
12.02 Assyrian identity in post-Empire times
12.02.03 Assyria and Assyrians in Greek, Latin and Jewish sources
12.02.03.04 Designation of the Seleucid Empire as Syria/Assyria
Royal titulary
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.03 Kingship as divine institution
01.03.06 Royal titulary

Keywords
Charax
Seleucid Empire
Syria

Period
1st century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 6.31:
The original town [Charax at the Persian Gulf] was … restored by Antiochus, the fifth king [of Syria], who gave it his own name

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Pliny the Elder, Naturalia Historia 6.31

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Antioch later Charax (Perseus)

Simo Parpola

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