Ardashir

ARDASHIR, the modern form of the Persian royal name ARTAXERXES (?.».), "he whose empire is excellent." After the three Achaemenian kings of this name, it occurs in Armenia, in the shortened form Artaxias (Armenian, Artashes or Artaxes), and among the dynasts of Persia who maintained their independence during the Parthian period (see PERSIS) . One of these, (i) Artaxerxes or ARDASHIR I. (in his Greek inscriptions he calls himself Artaxares, and the same form occurs in Agathias ii. 25, iv. 24), became the founder of …

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Vol. 2, pp. 448-449