Bivar 1983, p. 29; Brosius 2006, p. 86; Kennedy 1996, p. 74. Adrian David Hugh Bivar, The Political History of Iran Under the Arsacids, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.1, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 21-99, ISBN0-521-20092-X. Maria Brosius, The Persians: An Introduction, Londra e New York, Routledge, 2006, ISBN0-415-32089-5. David Kennedy, Parthia and Rome: eastern perspectives, in The Roman Army in the East, Ann Arbor, Cushing Malloy Inc., Journal of Roman Archaeology: Supplementary Series Number Eighteen, 1996, pp. 67-90, ISBN1-887829-18-0.
Bivar 1983, pp. 36-37; Curtis 2007, p. 11. Adrian David Hugh Bivar, The Political History of Iran Under the Arsacids, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.1, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 21-99, ISBN0-521-20092-X. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, The Iranian Revival in the Parthian Period, in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis e Sarah Stewart (a cura di), The Age of the Parthians: The Ideas of Iran, vol. 2, Londra e New York, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum, 2007, pp. 7–25, ISBN978-1-84511-406-0.
Bivar 2007, p. 26. Adrian David Hugh Bivar, Gondophares and the Indo-Parthians, in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis e Sarah Stewart (a cura di), The Age of the Parthians: The Ideas of Iran, vol. 2, Londra e New York, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum, 2007, pp. 26–36, ISBN978-1-84511-406-0.
Kennedy 1996, pp. 73-78; Brosius 2006, p. 91; Sheldon 2010, pp. 12-16. David Kennedy, Parthia and Rome: eastern perspectives, in The Roman Army in the East, Ann Arbor, Cushing Malloy Inc., Journal of Roman Archaeology: Supplementary Series Number Eighteen, 1996, pp. 67-90, ISBN1-887829-18-0. Maria Brosius, The Persians: An Introduction, Londra e New York, Routledge, 2006, ISBN0-415-32089-5. Rose Mary Sheldon, Rome's Wars in Parthia: Blood in the Sand, Londra e Portland, Valentine Mitchell, 2010, ISBN978-0-85303-981-5.
Bivar 1983, pp. 60-63; Garthwaite 2005, p. 80; Curtis 2007, p. 13; cfr. anche Kennedy 1996, p. 81 per le analisi del cambio di interessi di Roma dalla Siria all'alto corso dell'Eufrate, a cominciare con Antonio. Adrian David Hugh Bivar, The Political History of Iran Under the Arsacids, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.1, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 21-99, ISBN0-521-20092-X. Gene Ralph Garthwaite, The Persians, Oxford & Carlton, Blackwell Publishing, Ltd., 2005, ISBN1-55786-860-3. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, The Iranian Revival in the Parthian Period, in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis e Sarah Stewart (a cura di), The Age of the Parthians: The Ideas of Iran, vol. 2, Londra e New York, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum, 2007, pp. 7–25, ISBN978-1-84511-406-0. David Kennedy, Parthia and Rome: eastern perspectives, in The Roman Army in the East, Ann Arbor, Cushing Malloy Inc., Journal of Roman Archaeology: Supplementary Series Number Eighteen, 1996, pp. 67-90, ISBN1-887829-18-0.
Watson 1983, pp. 543-544; Yü 1986, pp. 460-461; de Crespigny 2007, pp. 239-240; cfr. anche Wang 2007, p. 101. Ying-shih Yü, Han Foreign Relations, in Denis Twitchett e Michael Loewe (a cura di), Cambridge History of China: the Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C. - A.D. 220, vol. 1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 377-462, ISBN0-521-24327-0. Rafe de Crespigny, A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD), Leida, Koninklijke Brill, 2007, ISBN90-04-15605-4. Tao Wang, Parthia in China: a Re-examination of the Historical Records, in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis e Sarah Stewart (a cura di), The Age of the Parthians: The Ideas of Iran, vol. 2, Londra e New York, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum, 2007, pp. 87-104, ISBN978-1-84511-406-0.
Curtis 2007, p. 13; Bivar 1983, pp. 93-94. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, The Iranian Revival in the Parthian Period, in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis e Sarah Stewart (a cura di), The Age of the Parthians: The Ideas of Iran, vol. 2, Londra e New York, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum, 2007, pp. 7–25, ISBN978-1-84511-406-0. Adrian David Hugh Bivar, The Political History of Iran Under the Arsacids, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.1, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 21-99, ISBN0-521-20092-X.
Lukonin 1983, p. 701; Curtis 2007, pp. 19-21. Vladimir G. Lukonin, Political, Social and Administrative Institutions: Taxes and Trade, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.2, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 681-746, ISBN0-521-20092-X. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, The Iranian Revival in the Parthian Period, in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis e Sarah Stewart (a cura di), The Age of the Parthians: The Ideas of Iran, vol. 2, Londra e New York, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum, 2007, pp. 7–25, ISBN978-1-84511-406-0.
Lukonin 1983, p. 704; Brosius 2006, p. 104. Vladimir G. Lukonin, Political, Social and Administrative Institutions: Taxes and Trade, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.2, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 681-746, ISBN0-521-20092-X. Maria Brosius, The Persians: An Introduction, Londra e New York, Routledge, 2006, ISBN0-415-32089-5.
Brosius 2006, p. 120; Kennedy 1996, p. 84. Maria Brosius, The Persians: An Introduction, Londra e New York, Routledge, 2006, ISBN0-415-32089-5. David Kennedy, Parthia and Rome: eastern perspectives, in The Roman Army in the East, Ann Arbor, Cushing Malloy Inc., Journal of Roman Archaeology: Supplementary Series Number Eighteen, 1996, pp. 67-90, ISBN1-887829-18-0.
Curtis 2007, p. 8; cfr. anche Sellwood 1983, pp. 279-280 per una comparazione con i copricapi satrapali achemenidi. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, The Iranian Revival in the Parthian Period, in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis e Sarah Stewart (a cura di), The Age of the Parthians: The Ideas of Iran, vol. 2, Londra e New York, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum, 2007, pp. 7–25, ISBN978-1-84511-406-0. David Sellwood, Parthian Coins, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.1, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 279-298, ISBN0-521-20092-X.
Curtis 2007, pp. 7-25; Sellwood 1983, pp. 279-298. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, The Iranian Revival in the Parthian Period, in Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis e Sarah Stewart (a cura di), The Age of the Parthians: The Ideas of Iran, vol. 2, Londra e New York, I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., in association with the London Middle East Institute at SOAS and the British Museum, 2007, pp. 7–25, ISBN978-1-84511-406-0. David Sellwood, Parthian Coins, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.1, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 279-298, ISBN0-521-20092-X.
Ebrey 1999, p. 70; per evidenze archeologiche di vasellame romano in antichi luoghi di sepoltura cinesi, cfr. An 2002, pp. 79-84. Patricia Buckley Ebrey, The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN0-521-66991-X. (paperback) Jiayao An, When Glass Was Treasured in China, in Annette L. Juliano e Judith A. Lerner (a cura di), Silk Road Studies: Nomads, Traders, and Holy Men Along China's Silk Road, vol. 7, Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2002, pp. 79-94, ISBN2-503-52178-9.
Kurz 1983, p. 564; cfr. anche Brosius 2006, p. 138 per ulteriori analisi: "Curiously, at the same time as the Parthian was depicted as uncivilised, he was also 'orientalised' in traditional fashion, being described as luxury-loving, leading an effeminate lifestyle, and demonstrating excessive sexuality." ("Curiosamente, allo stesso tempo in cui i Parti erano dipinti come incivilizzati, erano anche "orientalizzati" alla maniera tradizionale, venendo descritti come amanti della lussuria, effeminati e con eccessiva sessualità"). Otto Kurz, Cultural Relations Between Parthia and Rome, in Ehsan Yarshater (a cura di), Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 3.1, Londra e New York, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 559-567, ISBN0-521-20092-X. Maria Brosius, The Persians: An Introduction, Londra e New York, Routledge, 2006, ISBN0-415-32089-5.
Posch 1998, p. 358. (DE) Walter Posch, Chinesische Quellen zu den Parthern, in Weisehöfer Josef (a cura di), Das Partherreich und seine Zeugnisse, Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte, vol. 122, Stoccarda, Franz Steiner, 1998, pp. 355–364.