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SAINT MESROP MASHTOTS [362-440] -THE GREAT VISIONARY- WHO REVIVED THE
USE OF THE ARMENIAN ALPHABET UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF KING VRAMŠAPUH
[REIGNED - 389-417] - LAUNCHING AN AGE OF RENEWAL OF LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE.

G R E A T E R  A R M E N I A CIRCA 150 AD. AFTER ROMAN INCURSIONS TO THE EAST

1687 STATUE OF TRDAT III [TIRIDATES] BY ANDRÉ. IN NORTHERN RAMP OF
THE PARK AND GARDEN OF THE CHÂTEAU OF VERSAILLES.
THE ARMENIAN KING IS IN THE NATIONAL MITHRAIC DRESS.

THE SACRED MITHRAIC [MEHIAN] SCRIPT BASED ON THE CONSTELLATION OF
ORION [HAYK] ...BECAME THE BASIS OF THE NEW REVIVED ALPHABET OF
IMMORTAL SAINT MESROP MASHTOTS WHO INCORPORATED THE ANCESTRAL
COSMIC SIGNS INTO THE REVIVED NATIONAL ALPHABET.

ARMENIAN CATAPHRACT [HEAVILY ARMED AND HEAVILY ARMORED CAVALRYMAN]
OF THIRD CENTURY AD. THE KNIGHTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES WERE IN
CONTINUATION OF THIS FINE TRADITION [BOTH GREEKS AND ROMAN ARMIES
LATER ON INCLUDED SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF CATAPHRACTS, MANY OF WHOM
WERE ARMENIAN AZAT KNIGHTS AND SEPUH NOBLES]. BY RENOWNED MILITARY
HISTORY ARTIST ANGUS MCBRIDE. NOTE THE FLAG-BEARER WITH THE STANDARD
VIŠAP [DRAGON] - ONE OF THE MILITARY SYMBOLS OF ARMENIAN WARRIORS.

THE REMARKABLY PRESERVED FIRST CENTURY ROMAN STATUE
OF TRDAT [TIRIATES] I IN MITHRAIC CASUAL ROBES AS THE
GOOD SHEPHERD. NOTE THE STAFF AND THE SWORD. RULE
OF THE REAL BY DIVINE RIGHT THROUGH WISDOM AND STRENGTH.
THE REMARKABLE STATUE WAS RECENTLY DISPLAYED IN THE LOUVRE
IN PARIS IN MONTHS LONG SPECIAL EXHIBITION CALLED ARMENIA SACRA
DEDICATED TO THE MILLENNIA OLD HERITAGE OF ARMENIA.

THE COIN OF TRDAT [TIRIDATES] I AND QUEEN. OBVERSE: BUST OF THE KING WITH
THE ROYAL ARMENIAN CROWN. REVERSE: THE ARMENIAN QUEEN ENTHRONED. (52-68).

STATUE OF TRDAT I [TIRIDATES] IN THE PARK AND GARDEN OF
THE CHÂTEAU OF VERSAILLES IN THE SUBURBS OF PARIS.
THE ARMENIAN KING IS WEARING THE NATIONAL MITHRAIC GARB.

THE USURPER RHADAMISTUS STABS HIS WIFE ZENOBIA AFTER FLEEING THE
PURSUING SOLDIERS OF KING TIRIDATES I.  PAINTING BY LUIGI SABATELLI.

SHEPHERDS FIND THE BODY OF WOUNDED ZENOBIA ON THE BANKS OF RIVER
ARAXES. SHE WAS TAKEN TO THE COURT OF KING TIRIDATES I AND TREATED
WITH DIGNITY AND HONOR. PAINTING BY PAUL-JACQUES-AIMÉ-BAUDRY. CA. 1848.

QUEEN IOTAPE [38-72] OF ARMENIAN KINGDOM OF COMMAGENE.
WIFE OF ANTIOCHUS IV. OBVERSE: VEILED HEAD FACING RIGHT.

REVERSE: THE SUN GOD MITHRAS AS YOUTH, SHOOTING BOW-AND-ARROW.

Trdat I (52-68)
Sanatruk (88-110)
Ashkhadar (110-113)
Partamasir (113-114)
Vagharsh I (117-144)
Bakur II (161-163)
Vagharsh II (186-198)
Khosrov I (198-216)
Trdat II (217-252)
Khosrov II (279-287)
Trdat III the Great (287-330)
Khosrov III (330-338)
Tiran (338-350)
Arshak II (350-368)
Pap (369-374)
Varazdat (374-378)
Arshak III (378-389)
Khosrov IV co-rule (384-389)
Vramshapuh (389-417)
Artashes III (422-428)