[Also called] Ghadam. Son of Pharasmanes II, died after 3 years of reign, leaving the regency for his one-year old son in the hands of his mother, Pharasmanes II's widow Ghadana. 1
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Parthman II's succession is not clear. The Georgian chronicle mentions a Ghadam (perhaps Radamist) who ruled very briefly. More cogently, a Greek and Aramaic tomb inscription in Armazi, reads: 'I am Seraphita, daughter of Zevakh the younger, pitiakhsh of Pharsman the king, and wife of Iodmandagan the victorious, winner of many conquests, master of the court of Kserfarnug, the great king of the Iberians, and son of Agrippa, master of the court of King Pharsman. Woe, woe, for the sake of her who . . . died at the age of twenty-one.' Was Iberia in the generation following Parsman II ruled by Kserfarnug, who, judging by the unusual failure to refer to his parenthood or legitimacy, and by his Ossetian name, may have been a usurper, or a commoner elevated to the throne by marriage? 2
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