Sohaemus of Emesa

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Sohaemus of Emesa

Sohaemus of Emesa, sometimes known as Sohaemus of Sophene or to give his full name Gaius Julius Sohaemus (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ? Ga??? ??????? S?a?µ??, Sohaemus Arabic for little dagger) was a prince and a Roman Client King

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
from Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
who lived in the 1st century

1st century

The 1st century was the century that lasted from 1 to 100 according the Julian calendar. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or History by period...
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Sohaemus was a prince and a member of the Royal Family of Emesa

Royal Family of Emesa

The Royal Family of Emesa was a native Syrian Arab dynasty of Priest Kings in Emesa . There is a possibility that members of the Royal Family may have some ancestry from the local Greek population in Syria....
from Emesa (modern Homs

Homs

Hims Hims did not emerge into the light of history until the 1st century BCE at the time of Seleucids. It later became the capital of a kingdom ruled by the Royal Family of Emesa who gave the city its name....
, Syria

Syria

Iotapa

Iotapa or Iotape also known as Iotapi was the name of various Queens and Princesses who lived in between the 2nd century BC, 1st century BC and 1st century....
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Sohaemus of Emesa, sometimes known as Sohaemus of Sophene or to give his full name Gaius Julius Sohaemus (Greek

Greek language

Roman Empire

Syria

1st century

Royal Family of Emesa

Homs

Syria

Iotapa

Iotapa or Iotape also known as Iotapi was the name of various Queens and Princesses who lived in between the 2nd century BC, 1st century BC and 1st century....
. He eldest brother was the childless Emesan King Gaius Julius Azizus, who was the first husband of the Herodian Princess

Herodian Dynasty

The Herodian Dynasty was a Jewish dynasty of Idumea descent, who ruled Iudaea Province between 37 BC - AD 92....
Drusilla

Drusilla (daughter of Agrippa I)

Drusilla was a daughter of Herod Agrippa I and thus sister to Berenice , Mariamne and Herod Agrippa II....
, while his sister Iotapa married the Herodian Prince

Herodian Dynasty

The Herodian Dynasty was a Jewish dynasty of Idumea descent, who ruled Iudaea Province between 37 BC - AD 92....
Aristobulus Minor

Aristobulus Minor

Aristobulus Minor or Aristobulus the Younger was a prince from the Herodian Dynasty. He was of Jewish, Nabataeans and Edomite ancestry....
. He was born, raised in Emesa and was of Syrian, Armenian

Armenians

The Armenians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands. A large concentration of them has remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world ....
, Greek and Medes

Medes

The Medes were an Ancient Iranian peoples who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area was known in Greek as Media or Medea ....
ancestry. Through his mother, Sohaemus was a descendant from the Kingdom of Commagene

Kingdom of Commagene

The Kingdom of Commagene was an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic Age.Initially a part of the Armenian province of Sophene, it was detached from Armenia along with Sophene by the Seleucid Empire, forming part of the Kingdom of Sophene....
, his maternal grandparents were King Mithridates III of Commagene

Mithridates III of Commagene

Mithridates III Antiochus Epiphanes, also known as Mithridates III Commagene was a man of Armenian and Greeks descent, who lived in the 1st century BC....
and Queen Iotapa of Commagene.

Azizus had died in 54 and Sohaemus succeeded his brother as King. He ruled from 54 until his death 73. At an unknown date in his reign, Sohaemus became the patron of Heliopolis (modern Baalbek

Baalbek

Baalbek is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 1,170 m , situated east of the Litani River. It is famous for its exquisitely detailed yet monumentally scaled temple ruins of the Roman Empire period, when Baalbek, known as Heliopolis was one of the largest sanctuaries in the Empire....
, Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
). In honor of his patronage to the city, this honorary inscription was dedicated to him: [translated from Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
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To the great king Gaius Julius Sohaemus, son of the great king Sampiceramus…patron of the colony.

Around 56, Sohaemus married his relative and the Mauretania

Mauretania

In Antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent Berber people monarchy on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa , corresponding to western Algeria, northern Morocco and Spain Plazas de soberan?a....
n Princess Drusilla of Mauretania

Drusilla of Mauretania (born 38)

Drusilla of Mauretania was a princess of Mauretania, the daughter and only child of king Ptolemy of Mauretania and queen Julia Urania....
, who was the child of the late Monarchs Ptolemy of Mauretania

Ptolemy of Mauretania

Ptolemy of Mauretania or Ptolemy of Morocco was a prince and the last Roman client king of Mauretania.Ptolemy was the only son to queen Cleopatra Selene II and king Juba II of Mauretania....
and Julia Urania

Julia Urania

Julia Urania or Urania was a woman who lived in the 1st century. Urania married the Roman client king Ptolemy of Mauretania. Ptolemy of Mauretania was an only grandson to African King Juba I of Numidia, Greeks Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and the youngest grandson to Ancient Rome Triumvir Mark Antony....
of Mauretania. Drusilla was the great granddaughter of Ptolemaic

Ptolemaic

Ptolemaic is the adjective formed from the name Ptolemy.This adjective is usually used in one of three ways:*To describe the Egyptian dynasty founded in 305 BC by Ptolemy I Soter...
Greek Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt

Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony

Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius , known in English as Marc Antony, was a Roman Republic politician and General. He was an important supporter and the best friend of Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, being Caesar's second cousin, once removed, by his mother Julia Antonia....
. Drusilla bore Sohaemus a son, prince Gaius Julius Alexio who would be future King of Emesa. Through his son, Sohaemus would have various descendants ruling on the Emesan throne and among those who claimed from his family’s ancestry would been Queen of Palmyra

Palmyra

Palmyra was in ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 120 km southwest of the Euphrates....
, Zenobia

Zenobia

Zenobia was a Roman Syrian queen who lived in the 3rd century. She was a Queen regnant of the Palmyrene Empire and the second wife of King Septimius Odaenathus....
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In the first year of his reign, under either Roman Emperor

Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
Claudius

Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
or Nero

Nero

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
, Sohaemus received the Roman province

Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province was the basic, and until the Tetrarchy , largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside of the Italia ....
of Sophene

Sophene

For the kingdom, please see Kingdom of Sophene.Sophene was a province of the Armenian Kingdom and of the Roman Empire, located in the south-west of the kingdom....
to rule. In 72, Sohaemus supplied troops to the Roman General Lucius Caesennius Paetus

Lucius Caesennius Paetus

Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus was a Roman aristocrat, member of the Junius , who lived in the second half of the 1st century during the Roman Empire....
who was the head of the Legio VI Ferrata

Legio VI Ferrata

Legio VI Ferrata , was a Roman Legion formed in 65 BC, and in existence up to at least 215 AD. It served under Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars , and in the various Roman civil wars of the Roman Republic in the years before and after Caesar's assassination ....
, in the annexation of the Kingdom of Commagene

Kingdom of Commagene

The Kingdom of Commagene was an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic Age.Initially a part of the Armenian province of Sophene, it was detached from Armenia along with Sophene by the Seleucid Empire, forming part of the Kingdom of Sophene....
. When Sohaemus died, he was buried in the tomb of his ancestors at Emesa and was succeeded by his son.