Territorial-Administrative Structure of the Bosporus Kingdom under Pharnaces II, based on Numismatic Data Cover Image

Территориально-административное устройство Боспорского царства при Фарнаке II по нумизматическим данным
Territorial-Administrative Structure of the Bosporus Kingdom under Pharnaces II, based on Numismatic Data

Author(s): Mikhail M. Choref
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Political history, Ancient World
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Bosporus; Mithridates; monogram; numismatics; Pompey; Rome; stater; Taurica; tetradrachm; Pharnaces; Chersonesos
Summary/Abstract: The rule of Pharnaces II has much fewer written evidences than the reign of his father Mithridates VI. However, the numismatic material allowed us to illuminate the circumstances that allowed him to take the title of “great king of kings”, and to determine the administrative structure of the Bosporus Kingdom during his reign. North-Eastern Black Sea region during this period was a conglomerate of royal possessions, quasi-autonomous city-states and the Hellenized peoples united by the power of “the great king of kings”.

  • Page Range: 247-259
  • Page Count: 13
  • Publication Year: 2011
  • Language: Russian