Mushegh I Mamikonian
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Mushegh I Mamikonian was an Armenian military officer from the Mamikonian family who occupied the hereditary office of sparapet of the Kingdom of Armenia under the Arsacid kings Pap and Varazdat. He t
19th-century illustration of Mushegh I Mamikonian.
Coin of the Sasanian shahanshah Shapur II (r. 309–379)
Coin of the Roman emperor Valens (r. 364–378)
A 16th-century miniature depicting King Pap (left) and sparapet Mushegh (right, holding sword)
Ammianus Marcellinus
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Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicized as Ammian, was a Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity. Written in Latin and known as th
Bust of Emperor Constantius II from Syria
The walls of Amida, built by Constantius II before the Siege of Amida of 359. Ammianus himself was present in the city until a day before its fall.
Title page to the 1533 editio princeps of books XXVII–XXXI of Res gestae, the first complete edition of the surviving books