Adobogiona

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Adobogiona (fl. c. 80-c. 50 BCE) was a Celtic Galatian princess.

The daughter of Deiotarus and sister to Brogitarus, princess of the Tolistobogii tribe, she was also cousin to King Deiotarus, the famous adherent of Pompey the Great. Adobogiona became the wife of Menodotus, a wealthy patrician citizen of Pergamum, in Asia Minor. Their son Mithridates of Pergamum (c. 80-41 BCE) was the friend and ally of Julius Caesar, who appointed him as tetrarch over there Trocmi tribe shortly before his assassination in 44 BCE. Adobogiona was hounoured by a surviving inscription uncovered on the island of Lesbos, and her portrait head has been discovered at Pergamum.

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  • S. Mitchell, Anatolia: Land, Men and Gods in Asia Minor, Vol. I (1956).
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