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Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh

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114 3 Military confrontations<br />

Fig. 15 Textile fragment from Antinoë in Egypt<br />

(Ghirshman, R. (1962) Iran. Parthians and Sassanians: fig. 289)<br />

(Photo: R. Basset)<br />

stipulated in the peace treaty of 562 (20). 201 The main reason for the<br />

emperor’s confidence was the fact that from 568 onwards the Romans<br />

entertained diplomatic relations with the Turks. In this year the Persian<br />

king turned away Turkish ambassadors who wanted to obtain permission<br />

201 Turtledove 1983: 292–334.

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