Satrapy of the Erythrean Sea
The satrapy of the Erythraean Sea was part of the Seleucid Empire . It was an administrative unit that under Antiochus III. was created by the division of the satrapy of Babylonia . The province is first for the year 222 BC. Chr. Attested. It was right on the Persian Gulf , in the south of what is now Iraq . Failaka and perhaps other islands in the Persian Gulf may also have been subordinate to it. The capital was Alexandria on the Tigris . Several satraps are attested. With the fall of the Seleucid Empire in this region, satrapy became independent as a character and then part of the Parthian Empire .
Satraps and eparches
- Phytiades (221 BC)
- Tychon (after 220 BC)
- Numenios (under Antiochus IV. )
- Hyspaosines (since 166/65 BC)
literature
- Monika Schuol : The characters. A Mesopotamian kingdom in the Hellenistic-Parthian period . Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07709-X , ( Oriens et Occidens 1), (Simultaneously: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1998), pp. 265-270.