Wahballat

king of Palmyra
Also known as: Athenodorus, Vaballathus

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history of Roman Empire

  • Roman Forum
    In ancient Rome: Difficulties in the East

    …titles granted to their son Vaballathus. Then in 270, taking advantage of the deaths of Gallienus and Claudius II, she invaded Egypt and a part of Anatolia. This invasion was followed by a rupture with Rome, and in 271 Vaballathus was proclaimed Imperator Caesar Augustus. The latent separatism of the…

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regency of Zenobia

  • Zenobia, portrait bust; in the Vatican Museum, Rome.
    In Zenobia

    …for her own young son Wahballat (called Vaballathus in Latin, Athenodorus in Greek). Styling herself queen of Palmyra, she had Vaballathus adopt his father’s titles of “king of kings” and corrector totius Orientis (“governor of all the East”).

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