The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 3
Subtitle: The Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid Periods, Part 2 of 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 29, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 883
ISBN-13: 9780521246934
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Middle East - General; History; History - General History; History: World; Iran; Middle East - Iran; History / Middle East; Iran - History
First sentence: For the questions dealt with in this chapter the available sources are markedly uneven in quality: evidence for the Parthian period is extremely meagre and fragmentary when compared with the information provided by the written sources of the Sasanian period.