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⁵ One Babylonian document, Strassmaier, Z. f. Assyr. III p. 129 no. 1 = J. Kohler and A. Ungnad, Hundert ausgewählte Rechtsurkunden no. 94, is dated by the Arsacid Era alone, but is one of such a numerous class of double-dated documents that this is certainly a scribe’s omission. The arguments for the Greek Avroman Pg. 1 the being dated by the Arsacid calendar are strong (M. Rostovtzeff, Yale Class. Stud. II pp. 41–2) but cannot amount to certainty in the absence of any Greek document certainly dated by the Arsacid Era alone. Professor C. B. Welles, Royal Correspondence p. 302 n. 8, has claimed SEG VII, 1 (Artabanus’ letter to Susa) as such a document. But it is not a Greek document; it is a Parthian one, the letter of a Parthian king who naturally used his own dating; his secretary might just as well have been writing in Pahlavi as in Greek, had the addressees spoken Pahlavi.