Symacho

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Symacho (* c. 5 AD) was Princess of Charakene and Queen of Adiabene .

origin

Location Charakenes around 51 BC Chr.

Symacho came from the house of the kings of Charakene (also Mesene), who ruled a small vassal state of the Parthian Empire , whose capital Charax Spasinu was an important trading post on the Silk Road from India to Mesopotamia . The empire existed for about 350 years and went under with the conquest of the Sassanids around 222 AD . Her father was Abinergaos I. King of the Charakene (around 10/11 to 13/14 and again 22/23 AD), who is mentioned by the Jewish historian Flavius ​​Josephus .

Life

Like their ancestors, Symacho was of the pagan religion, but at her father's court came into contact with the Jewish trader - presumably of Hellenistic origin - Ananias von Adiabene, who played an important role there and was successful in bringing the pagan inhabitants of the capital of the Kingdom of Charax Spasinu to the Convert Judaism . His greatest success was the conversion of Symacho, as she, as the king's daughter, made a number of women of the leading circles take the same step. She was married to a prince from the house of the kings of Adiabene, Izates, who lived at her father's court and who also converted to Judaism through her influence.

Izates succeeded his father, Monobazos I, as King of Adiabene in AD 36 as Izates II . Symacho thus became the queen of this state. This was in Mesopotamia, between the rivers Lycus ( Großer Zab ) and Caprus ( Kleiner Zab ), which are part of the river system of the Shatt al-Arab in what is now Iraq . According to the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus († c. 395), the kingdom of Adiabene also included the cities of Nineveh (on the Tigris , in today's Iraq), Ekbatana (the old capital of the Medes empire and residence of the great Persian kings in the Achaemenid empire - today Hamadan in Iran ) and Gaugamela (north of Nineveh in present-day Iraq). Symacho is likely to have spent the rest of her life in the capital of the Kingdom of Adiabene, in Arbela, one of the oldest cities in the world, today's Erbil (capital of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan in Iraq). The year of their death is not known.

Marriage and offspring

& Izates II, King of Adiabene ( 36-60 AD)

Children: According to Christian Settipani , she had five children, including

  • Ne, princess of Adiabene (* c. 30 AD)

& Mannos VI., King of Osrohene ( 57-71 AD)

Grandson:

  • Awde, princess of Osrohene (* 45/50) ∞ Mithridates, king of Armenia (72 - 76)
Descendants: the kings of Armenia; the houses of Suren-Pahlav, Mamikonian etc.
  • Abgar VI., King of Osrohene (71-91)
  • Izates, Prince of Osrohene
Descendants: the following kings of Osrohene and Edessa

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Settipani; "Nos Ancêtres de l´Antiquité" Editions Christian, Paris, page 80
  2. ^ Flavius ​​Josephus , Antiquitates Judaicae (Jewish antiquities) xx. 2 f.
  3. ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus: "Res gestae" XVIII, VII 1
  4. ↑ Christian Settipani; "Nos Ancêtres de l´Antiquité" Editions Christian, Paris, page 80
  5. ↑ Christian Settipani; "Nos Ancêtres de l´Antiquité" Editions Christian, Paris, page 80

literature

  • Monika Schuol : The characters. A Mesopotamian kingdom in the Hellenistic-Parthian period . Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07709-X , ( Oriens et Occidens 1), (Simultaneously: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1998), pp. 226-227, 323-326.

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personal data
SURNAME Symacho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Symacho from Charakene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ruler of Adiabene
DATE OF BIRTH at 5'o clock
DATE OF DEATH 1st century