[The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia by George Rawlinson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia CHAPTER VI 8/13
Previously the royal headdress had been either a mere cap of a Scythic type, but lower than the Scyths commonly wore it; or the ordinary diadem, which was a band round the head terminating in two long ribbons or ends, that hung down behind the head on the back.
According to Herodian, the diadem, in the later times, was double; but the coins of Parthia do not exhibit this peculiarity.
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4.] Ammianus says that among the titles assumed by the Parthian monarchs was that of "Brother of the Sun and Moon." It appears that something of a divine character was regarded as attaching to the race.
In the civil contentions, which occur so frequently throughout the later history, combatants abstained from lifting their hands knowingly against an Arsacid, to kill or wound one being looked upon as sacrilege.
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