La cittadinanza romana concessa ai re orientali nel II secolo d.C. Il caso di Αὐρήλιος Πάκορος, re dell'Armenia maior

After the difficulties created by the Parthian operations at the beginning of the principate of Antoninus Pius, the Romans regained indirect control of Armenia around 163-164 CE. Around 172 CE they finally escorted into Armenia the new king Sohaemus of Emesa, allegedly a senator who had also been appointed consul, and could also boast an aristocratic lineage descending from the Arsacids and even from the Achaemenids. The nature of the Roman sources, to which we may add the evidence from the Armenian historian Movsēs Xorenac'i, allows us to identify the deposed king in Pakoros, whom we find again in Rome, where he was received by Marcus Aurelius, who gave him the Roman citizenship. Finally Pakoros, who seems to have lived until 200 CE ca., was finally buried in Rome in a sarcophagus by the care of his brother Merithatēs (Mehrdād).