Editing Parni (section)

==Notes==
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* a{{note_label|Arsaces_Bactrian|a|none}} Arsaces was "perhaps originally a local ruler in Bactria."{{sfn|Bivar|1983|p=31}}
* b{{note_label|succession|b|none}} The origins of the Arsacids lineage are based on the historiography of later Greeks and Romans; the fact remains that the Arsacids used Greek titles and Greek inscriptions on their coins, which were also styled after the Seleucid coins. While Wolski (1937/1938) supported that the story of the two brothers may even be fiction, their coins are real, and they are considered to be historical personae and that Tiridates (I) succeeded his brother Arsaces (I), although he took on the Arsaces name at his coronation, a not-unusual practice in that era. Some have also questioned the relationship between Tiridates I (a.k.a. Arsaces II) and his son and successor Arsaces II (a.k.a. Artabanus I). For example, Bivar has rejected{{sfn|Bivar|1983|p=31}} the genealogies proposed by Frye and Chaumont & Bickermann.
* c{{note_label|parnian|c|none}}In linguistics and philology, the expression 'Parnian' is sometimes used as a term of convenience to collectively denote eastern Iranian influences evident in the (western Iranian) Parthian language. Because the language of the Parni is not actually attested, it is not possible to determine whether there is actually a specific correlation between the language of the Parni and that of the east Iranian element in Parthian.
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