Toumanoff has inferred that the Samanazus, a name of the Iberian " king " found in John Malala's list of rulers contemporary with Justinian and reported by Theophanes the Confessor and Georgios Kedrenos to have visited Constantinople in 535, might have been a corruption of words meaning " brother of Dachi " and so perhaps refers to Mihrdat.

Professor Ivane Javakhishvili assigns to Vakhtang ’ s rule the dates c. 449 – 502 and Professor Cyril Toumanoff the dates c. 447 – 522.

Furthermore, Toumanoff identifies Vakhtang with the Iberian king Gurgenes known from Procopius ' Wars of Justinian.

Javakhishvili explains this conflict on account of doctrinal differences between the Monophysite Vakhtang and Diophysite Mikel, a presumption supported by Toumanoff, who points out, that the change of prelate and his subordination to Antioch could " only imply acceptance of Zeno's formulary of faith ", i. e., the moderately Monophysite Henotikon of 482.

If Toumanoff ’ s identification of Procopius ’ Gurgenes with Vakhtang is true, the king might have ended his reign in 522 by taking refuge in Lazica, where he possibly died around the same time.

While Georgian and Classical evidence makes the contemporaneous Kartlian links with the Seleucids plausible ( Toumanoff has even implied that the kings of Kartli might have aided the Seleucids in holding the resurgent Orontids of Armenia in check ), Parnavaz's alleged reform of the eristavi fiefdoms is most likely a back-projection of the medieval pattern of subdivision to the remote past.

Heraclius II () ( November 7, 1720, or October 7, 1721 to Cyril Toumanoff | C. Toumanoff — January 11, 1798 ) was a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi Dynasty, reigning as the king of Kakheti from 1744 to 1762, and of Kartli and Kakheti from 1762 until 1798.

Based on the medieval evidence, most scholars locate Parnavaz ’ s rule in the 3rd century BC: 302 – 237 BC according to Prince Vakhusht, 299 – 234 BC according to Cyril Toumanoff and 284 – 219 BC according to Pavle Ingoroqva.

Traditional chronology after Prince Vakhushti assigns to Mirian's reign — taken to have lasted for 77 years — the dates 268 – 345, which Professor Cyril Toumanoff corrects to 284 – 361.

* Cyril Leo Heraclius, Prince Toumanoff ( born Toumanishvili ) ( 1913 – 1997 ), Russian-born historian and genealogist who was a Professor Emeritus at Georgetown University

According to Toumanoff: " the predominance of Hellenism, as under the Artaxiads, was now followed by a predominance of “ Iranianism ,” and, symptomatically, instead of Greek, as before, Parthian became the language of the educated ".

She died without issue when Mirian was 15 years old, in 292 according to Toumanoff.

Genealogist and historian Cyril Toumanoff favors an Orontid origin of the Artsruni family.

" So sentient is Tiresias, even in death ," observes Marina Warner " that he comes up to Odysseus and recognizes him and calls him by name before he has drunk the black blood of the sacrifice ; even Odysseus ' own mother cannot accomplish this, but must drink deep before her ghost can see her son for himself.

Kerenyi observes that her name is merely an epithet and claims that she was originally the " Mistress of the Labyrinth ", both a winding dance-ground and in the Greek view a prison with the dreaded Minotaur at its centre.

Aulus Gellius observes that the particle ve-that prefixes the name of the god also appears in Latin words such as vesanus, " insane ," and thus interprets the name Vejovis as the anti-Jove.

Ryholt furthermore observes the name Hayanu is recorded in the Assyrian king-lists for a " remote ancestor " of Shamshi-Adad I ( c. 1813 BC ) of Assyria, which suggests that it had been used for centuries prior to Khyan's own reign.

David Lindsey, writing in 1955, observes that " New England Yankees, moving into Ohio's Western Reserve in 1798, brought with them the name Andover from a township in Tolland County, Connecticut, birthplace of many of the migrants.

In addition to the official era name system, in which the era names are selected by the imperial court, one also observes — primarily in the ancient documents and epigraphs of shrines and temples — unofficial era names called, also known as or.

Linnaeus chose his specific name because the species " observes approaching hawks and announces presence of songbirds " as he put it.

In opposition to the common Show, don't tell rule in literature, Vonnegut observes his characters from an almost omniscient perspective ; for example, " His name is Andor Gutman.

" General opinion now tends to regard Till Eulenspiegel as an entirely imaginary figure around whose name was gathered a cycle of tales popular in the Middle Ages ," Ruth Michaelis-Jena observes " Yet legendary figures need a definite background to make them memorable and Till needed the reality of the Braunschweig landscape and real towns to which he could travel — Cologne, Rostock, Bremen and Marburg among them — and whose burghers become the victims of his pranks.

( JNES 25, p. 123 ) Donald Redford, in a BASOR 211 ( 1973 ) No. 37 footnote observes that the use of Horemheb's name and the addition of a long " Meryamun " ( Beloved of Amun ) epithet in the graffito suggests a living, eulogised king rather than a long deceased one.

While none of the pieces in the collection use the name " madrigal ", some of the compositions are settings of Petrarch, and the music carefully observes word placement and accent, and even contains word-painting, a feature which was to become characteristic of the later madrigal.

It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the last word of Daphnis and Chloe's title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι δ in the Florentine manuscript ; Seiler also observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου ( not λόγγου ) ποιμενικῶν.

However, Troy Sagrillo in a GM 205 ( 2005 ) paper observes that " there are only a bare handful of inscribed blocks from Tanis that might name the king ( i. e., Shoshenq I ) and none of these come from an in situ building complex contemporary with his reign.

Late traditions reported in Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, and by Pausanias, derive the name from an eponymous king Lelex ; a comparable etymology, memorializing a legendary founder, is provided by Greek mythographers for virtually every tribe of Hellenes: " Lelex and the Leleges, whatever their historical significance, have acted as a blank sheet on which to draw Lakonia and all it means ," observes Ken Dowden.

Prince Tenshin or was Tadahira's posthumous name, and this is the name commonly associated with a poem which observes that " The maples of Mount Ogura, If they could understand, Would keep their brilliant leaves, until he Ruler of this land Pass with his Royal band.

But, Jesus observes, this sum was everything she had to her name, while the other people give only a small portion of their own wealth.

Her Lydian name was Kuvav or Kufav which Ionian Greeks transcribed Kybêbê, not Kybele ; Jan Bremmer notes in this context the seventh-century Semonides of Amorgos, who calls one of her Hellene followers a kybêbos, and he observes that in the following century she has been further Hellenized by Hipponax as " Kybêbê, daughter of Zeus ".

Rolf Krauss aptly observes that the earliest attested use of the word pharaoh as a title is documented in Year 17 of the 21st Dynasty king Siamun from Karnak Priestly Annals fragment 3B while a second use of the title ' name ' occurs during Psusennes II's reign where a hieratic graffito in the Ptah chapel of the Abydos temple of Seti I explicitly refers to Psusennes II as the " High Priest of Amen-Re, King of the Gods, the Leader, Pharaoh Psusennes.

He also locates a " city " called Ivernis (, Iouernis ) in their territory, and observes that this settlement has the same name as the island as a whole, Ivernia ().

The rest of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America observes this as the feast day of Kamehameha and Emma, King and Queen of Hawaii, but does not use the name " Feast of the Holy Sovereigns ".

" In a way ," Walter Burkert observes, " the power and order of Argos the city are embodied in Argos the neatherd, lord of the herd and lord of the land, whose name itself is the name of the land.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

Immanuel Kant, writing in 1790, observes of a man " If he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if someone else corrects his terms and reminds him to say instead: It is agreeable to me ," because " Everyone has his own ( sense of ) taste ".

Like the natural world that he observes he too has reached his prime and now must look forward to the inevitability of old age and death.

Very silent, until she observes that " Wivens has fallen down a manhole ".

Chris Prouty observes that " a failure of nerve on the part of Menelik has been alleged by both Italian and Ethiopian sources.

In psychology, phenomenology largely has meant attempting to investigate consciousness using the method of introspection, which means looking into one's own mind and reporting what one observes.

Corum returns to the island to rescue Rhalina, and observes Shool has become a powerless moron, and is devoured by his own creations soon afterwards.

An auditor addresses questions to a subject, observes and records the subject's responses, and returns repeatedly to experiences or areas under discussion that appear painful until the troubling experience has been identified and confronted.

In Western Christianity it has traditionally been taught, since as far back as the time of the Donatist controversy of the fourth and fifth centuries, that any bishop can consecrate any other baptised man as a bishop provided that the bishop observes the minimum requirements for the sacramental validity of the ceremony.

Marlow observes how Kurtz's intellect was intact, but his soul has gone mad.

" David Harley Serlin observes in the second half of Melville's diptych, " The Tartarus of Maids ," the narrator gives voice to the oppressed women he observes: " As other scholars have noted, the " slave " image here has two clear connotations.

" But Maloy adds that " The totalitarian thesis in Rousseau studies has, by now, been discredited as an attribution of real historical influence .” Arthur Melzer, however, while conceding that Rousseau would not have approved of modern nationalism, observes that his theories do contain the " seeds of nationalism ", insofar as they set forth the " politics of identification ", which are rooted in sympathetic emotion.

In Envisioning the " Tale of Genji " Shirane observes that " The Tale of Genji has become many things to many different audiences through many different media over a thousand years ... unmatched by any other Japanese text or artifact.

Wired observes that while Cawley's depiction " lacks Shatner's vulnerability ", the actor has enough swagger " to be passable in the role of Captain Kirk ".

" Erlewine elsewhere observes that, " the anti-record company ' Paint a Vulgar Picture '" – on Strangeways, Here We Come – " has grown increasingly ironic in the wake of the Smiths ' and Morrissey's love of repackaging the same material in new compilations.

* 1998 Super-Kamiokande ( Japan ) observes evidence for neutrino oscillations, implying that at least one neutrino has mass.

* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, quaestor in Spain, observes that slave labor has displaced small freeheld farms.

Although " collectable " is the spelling listed first for the adjective by the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard spelling in British English, the dictionary observes that the "- ible " form is also valid and this has come to be the common spelling in the United States.

In a 1930 self-analysis of his own writings, Rank observes that " the pre-Oedipal super-ego has since been overemphasized by Melanie Klein, without any reference to me " ( ibid., p. 149n ).

Skoble observes that the theme has evolved into a " staple of science fiction that the machines charged with protecting us from ourselves will misuse or abuse their power.

" Author Brian Dunning observes that " Cuba is not among the nations represented in the Bilderberg Group and Castro has never attended a meeting ", so he has no greater insight than any reader of Estulin's book.

In a hypothetical world where all books are published electronically, Ochse observes, readers would be " only a lightning strike, a faulty switch, a sleepy workman or a natural disaster away from becoming Henry Bemis at the end of the world "— that is, a power outage has the potential to give them time to read, yet like Bemis, they too would lose their medium for accessing their books — namely the computer.