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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26313348, member: 128351&quot;]There was never a Palmyrene Empire. </p><p>Odaenathus (Zenobia&#039;s husband and Vaballathus&#039; father) never claimed to be an emperor. He had the titles of Consular (governor of the province), Corrector totius Orientis (commander of all Roman forces in Orient), and &quot;King of Kings&quot;. This last title is not a Roman imperial title, it is a Persian title and it means he pretended to be the legitimate sucessor of the Parthian king Artabanus toppled by Ardashir. Not king of Palmyra : Palmyra was never a kingdom but an hellenized city with a boule and magistrates... </p><p>After his assassination, his younger son Vaballathus inherited the titles. On the Latin Vaballathus / Aurelian antoniniani Vaballathus is VCRIMDR : Vir Consularis (= governor), Rex (King (of the Parthians)), IMperator (invested of the imperium), Dux Romanorum (Commander of the Roman soldiers). His portrait wears 2 crowns : the diadem, as king, and the laurel wreath, as imperator. It is Aurelian and Aurelian alone who is AVGustus and wears the radiate crown. There re no Zenobia coins at this moment.</p><p>Later, in 272, we find coins of Zenobia Augusta and Vaballathus Augustus. This means that they were proclaimed Augusti by their Roman troops, like many other Roman commanders in the 3rd c. They claimed to be emperors of the whole Roman Empire ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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