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Iotape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Grace H. Macurdy
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Five different princesses named Iotape are mentioned by Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and Josephus, and the name and title of one of them appear on coins of Commagene. The princesses belong to the kingdoms of Media, Emesa, Commagene, and Judaea. The first of them in point of time is Iotape of Media, who was betrothed as a child to Alexander Helios. In the next century an Iotape Philadelphus appears on coins as the sister-wife of Antiochus IV of Commagene, and a contemporary Iotape, daughter of Sampsigeramus of Emesa, is mentioned by Josephus. Both of these contemporary Iotapes had daughters named Iotape. I suggest in this paper that the Median Iotape was the grandmother both of Iotape, daughter of Sampsigeramus, who married the Jewish prince Aristobulus, brother of Julius Agrippa I and of Herod, king of Chalcis, and also of Iotape, sister-wife of Antiochus IV of Commagene, ‘vetustis opibus ingens et seruientium regum ditissimus.’

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , 1936 , pp. 40 - 42
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Copyright ©Grace H. Macurdy 1936. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Plutarch, Ant. 53.

2 Cassius Dio, 49, 44; 51, 16.

3 Josephus, AJ, 18, 135Google Scholar and 140.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid.

6 Tacitus, Hist. 2, 81Google Scholar.

7 Cassius Dio, 54, 9.

8 Plutarch, loc. cit.: Cassius Dio, 49, 44; 51, 16.

9 Cassius Dio, 51, 15–16.

10 Id. 54, 9.

11 Geschichte der römischen Kaiserzeit II, 2, p. 622.

12 Plutarch, Ant. 61.

13 Th. Mommsen in Ath. Mitt., I (1876), pp. 28 ffGoogle Scholar. Reinach, ‘ La dynastie de Commagène’ in L'Histoire par les Monnaies (1906), p. 246, and Rev. des Ét grecques iii, 1890, 377Google Scholar. (Cf. Geyer, ‘ Mithridates, ’ 29–31 in P-W 15, coll. 2213–2214.)

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