Agathias 4.24.6–8; Panegyrici Latini N3.16.25; Thaalibi 495; Arthur Christensen (1944). L'Iran sous les Sassanides (in French). Copenhague: Ejnar Munksgaard. p. 214.
Artabanus IV is erroneously known in older scholarship as Artabanus V. For further information, see Schippmann (1986a, pp. 647–650) Schippmann, K. (1986a). "Artabanus (Arsacid kings)". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. II, Fasc. 6. pp. 647–650.