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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7937896, member: 115909&quot;]Ariobarzanes I was originally put in place by the citizens vote of Cappadocia after the Roman Senate rejected the claims of</p><p>Ariarathes IX of Cappadocia and was supported by the Roman Consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla. He was in control on-and-off of a kingdom that was considered a Roman protectorate and he was removed three separate times by King Mithridates before not only securing but actually increasing his lands under general Pompey in the Third Mithridatic War. He eventually abdicated, making way for the rule of his son Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia in c. 63 BC–62 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ariobarzanes&#039; queen was a Greek noblewoman, Athenais Philostorgos I. Athenais bore Ariobarzanes I two children: a son, Ariobarzanes II, who succeeded him, and a daughter, Isias Philostorgos, who married the King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1373424[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1373426[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1373425[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1373427[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CAPPADOCIAN KINGDOM. Ariobarzanes I Philoromaeus (96-63 BC). AR drachm (17mm, 12h). NGC AU.</b> Eusebeia under Mount Argaeus, dated Year 28 (68/7 BC). Diademed head of Ariobarzanes I right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ-ΑΡΙΟΒΑΡZΑΝΟΥ-ΦΙΛΟΡΩΜΑΙΟΥ, Athena standing left, Nike in right hand, left hand resting on grounded shield, spear behind; XAI monogram in inner left field, KH (date) below. HGC 7, 846. Simonetta 38d.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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