Sabbaghian, Berj2025-04-072025-04-071973Սապպաղեան, Պ., «Լուկուլլոսի Զինուորներուն Թիւը Տիգրանակերտի Ճակատամարտին (Ըստ Դրամագիտական Տուեալներու)», Հայկազեան Հայագիտական Հանդէս, 1973, Պէյրութ, էջ 97-102https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/507In 69 B.C. when King Tigranes I of Armenia was engaged in wars in Syria, Lucullus, without the blessing of the Roman Senate and without warning, attacked Armenia and besieged its newly-built capital Tigranagert. Tigranes, heading a small army, hastened to Armenia, but he failed to save the city. According to the Roman sources, Plutarch and Appius, Lucullus, with 15,000 soldiers, defeated Tigranes, who was leading an army of 300,000 soldiers. The Roman general, then looted the city, and carried away 8,000 talents of silver, in coins, and distributed among his soldiers, 800 drachmas per capita. On the basis of talent-drachma monetary evaluations, it is possible to figure out the correct number of Lucullus' soldiers -63,892 and not 15,000 as Plutarch and Appius have indicated. Tigranes' soldiers, on the other hand, according to historiographical datas, could not have exceeded 80,000.