Symacho

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

Origin

Symacho originate in 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 center on the Silk Road from India to Mesopotamia. The Empire lasted about 350 years, and was about 222 AD to the conquest under the Sassanids. Her father was Abinergaos I. King of Charakene ( about 10/ 11 to 13 /14 and again 22/23 AD), who is mentioned by the Jewish historian Flavius ​​Josephus.

Life

Symacho was like their ancestors pagan religion, however, came on her father's farm in contact with the Jewish merchants - probably Hellenistic origin - Ananias of Adiabene, which there played an important role and was successful in its efforts, the pagan inhabitants of the capital of the kingdom Charax - Spasinu to convert to Judaism. His biggest success was the conversion of Symacho since, as daughter of the King led a number of women in the leading circles of the same step. She was married to a prince of the house of the kings of Adiabene, Izates, who lived at her father's court, and through their influence also went over to Judaism.

Izates followed in the year 36 AD as Izates II to his father, Monobazos I, as king of Adiabene. Symacho thus became the queen of that State. This was in Mesopotamia, between the rivers Lycus (Great Zab ) and Caprus ( Little Zab ), the part of the river system of the Shatt al-Arab in Iraq today. According to the Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus (. † c 395 ) belonged to the kingdom of Adiabene including the cities of Nineveh ( on the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq), Ecbatana ( the ancient capital of Mederreiches and residence of the Persian kings of the Achaemenid Empire - today Hamadan in Iran ) and Gaugamela (north of Nineveh, in present-day Iraq). Symacho should 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 Arbil (the capital of Kurdistan Autonomous Region of Iraq ). The year of her death is not known.

Marriage and issue

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

Children: Christian Settipani After they had five children, including

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

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

Grandchildren:

  • Awde, Princess of Osrohene ( * 45 /50) ∞ Mithridates, King of Armenia (72 - 76)
  • . Abgar VI, King of Osrohene (71 - 91)
  • Izates, Prince of Osrohene
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