Douptounos
Tiberios Ioulios Douptounos or Doiptounos was a king of the Bosporan Empire in the 5th or 6th century AD.
Douptounos is only known from the inscription on a stele from Pantikapaion . The name is not Greek and appears here for the first time. Douptounos bears the names and titles that the kings of the Aspurgid dynasty wore between 40 and 340 AD, which suggests that the Bosporan Empire continued to exist after the Goths and Huns invaded in the middle of the 4th century. At that time, coinage ceased, which was interpreted as the fall of the empire.
The date cannot be clearly determined because the inscription mentions Christian characters and also a comes , Viktor F. Gajdukevič assumes that he was appointed administrator of the Bosporos by Byzantium, probably after AD 620. Vinogradov dates the inscription in the year 483.
literature
- Viktor F. Gajdukevič : The Bosporan Empire. 2nd edition, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1971, p. 517.
- Jurij G. Vinogradov: The Late Classical Bosporus and Early Byzantium (in the Light of Dated Bosporan Inscriptions of the Fifth Century). In: Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. 5, 1998-1999, pp. 245-269.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Douptounos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doiptounos; Doiptunos; Doiptounes; Doiptunes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of the Bosporan Empire |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century or 6th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century or 6th century |