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| Name |
Mithradates I |
| Suffix |
King of Iberia |
| Birth |
Abt 0020 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
107 |
| Notes |
- «b»http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps23/ps23_137.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_I_of_Iberia
Mithridates I«/b» (Mihrdat) was the 1st-century king of «u»Iberia «/u» («u»Kartli «/u», modern eastern «u»Georgia«/u») whose reign is evidenced by epigraphic material. «u»Cyril Toumanoff «/u» suggests A.D. 58-106 as the years of his reign.
Two inscriptions unearthed at «u»Armazi «/u», Georgia, \endash one bilingual in «u»Aramaic «/u» and «u»Greek «/u», and the other in Greek \endash identifies Mithridates (Mirdat) as the son of the "great king" Pharsamanes (P'arsman), apparently the «u»Pharasmanes of Iberia «/u» of «u»Tacitus «/u»'s «u»«i»Annals «/u»«/i». The stone inscription in Greek speaks of Mithridates as "the friend of the Caesars" and the king "of the Roman-loving Iberians." It also reports that the «u»Roman emperor «/u» «u»Vespasian «/u» fortified Armazi for the Iberian king in 75.«u»[1]
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Mithridates is ignored by the medieval Georgian chronicles which, instead, report a joint rule of Kartam (Kardzam) and Bartom (Bratman) \endash in the time when Vespasian's destruction of «u»Jerusalem «/u» in 70 spurred a wave of the refugee «u»Jews «/u» to Iberia \endash and then of their sons \endash Parsman and Kaos \endash and grandsons \endash Azork and Armazel.«u»[2]«/u» Several moderns scholars, such as Cyril Toumanoff, consider the Iberian diarchy a pure legend and a "deformed memory of the historical reign of Mithridates I".«u»[3]«/u» Of these royal pairs, Professor «u»Giorgi Melikishvili «/u» identifies "Azork" as Mithridates's possible local name and "Armazel" as a territorial epithet, meaning in Georgian "of Armazi."«u»[4]
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There is another Greek inscription \endash found in «u»Rome «/u» \endash an «u»epitaph «/u» for Amazaspus, who is named as brother of King Mithridates of Iberia. The inscription records Amazapus's death at «u»Nisibis «/u», while accompanying the emperor «u»Trajan «/u» on his «u»Parthian «/u» campaign of 114-117.«u»[5]
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Some modern scholars identify Mithridates I with the king Flavius Dades, known from a single Greek inscription around the edge of the base of a large silver dish found at Armazi. The dish was part of the inventory of a rich Roman-era burial conventionally known as "the Bersoumas burial" after the high dignitary Bersoumas to whom, the inscriptions says, this piece was presented by the king Flavius Dades. There is no mention of him in the medieval Georgian written tradition and appears to be the only Roman name attested in the Iberian ruling house, evidently indicating that he held «u»Roman citizenship «/u». The identification of this monarch and his place in the Iberian royal dynasty remains problematic, however.«u»[5]
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«b»References
«u»^«/u»«/b» «u»Suny, Ronald Grigor «/u» (1994), «i»The Making of the Georgian Nation«/i», p. 15. «u»Indiana University Press«/u», «u»ISBN 0253209153 «/u»
«u»«b»^«/u»«/b» Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), «i»Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts«/i», p. 288. Peeters Publishers, «u»ISBN 90-429-1318-5 «/u».
«u»«b»^«/u»«/b» Toumanoff, Cyril (1969), Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia. «i»Traditio«/i» 25: pp. 12-14.
«u»«b»^«/u»«/b» Giorgi L. Kavtaradze. «u»The Interrelationship between the Transcaucasian and Anatolian Populations by the Data of the Greek and Latin Literary Sources <http://www.geocities.com/komblege/thracian.htm>«/u», pp. 212-213. The Thracian World at the Crossroads of Civilisations. Reports and Summaries. The 7th International Congress of Thracology. P. Roman (ed.). Bucharest: the Romanian Institute of Thracology, 1996.
^ «u»«b»«i»«sup»a«/u»«/b»«/i»«/sup» «u»«b»«i»«sup»b«/u»«/b»«/i»«/sup» Braund, David (1993), «u»King Flavius Dades. «/u» «i»Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik«/i» 96; 46\endash 50.
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Glenn Cook Family |
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