Archobarzane, grand-son of Syphax and probably the son of Vermina, ruled the kingdom of Masaesylians after the death of Vermina.
Archobarzane does not appear to have remained faithful to the alliance of the Romans. In 157 BC, when Marcus Cato arrived in Africa with other commissioners to settle territorial disputes between Carthage and Massinissa, he learned that Archobarzane had encamped with an army on the Carthaginian border. When Marcus Cato returned to Rome, he did not fail to build on this to demonstrate the need to immediately open hostilities against Carthage. But Massinissa did not wait for Rome's help to disperse the army of his enemy, and it is very likely that on this occasion he annexed Masaesylians to his kingdom of Massyles States. Appian says, in fact, that Massinissa so enlarged the influence of his father, that he commanded the whole country extending from Cyrenaica to Mauritania close to the ocean. From that time, there is no question of the heirs of Syphax, nor of his kingdom, and we do not talk more than that of Masinissa. At his death, in 148 BC, the division of his states was made according to his will, by Scipio Aemilianus, to his three sons Micipsa, and Gulussa and Manastabal.
This article incorporates text from Recueil des notices et mémoires de la Société archélologique de la Province de Constantine, a publication from 1863 now in the public domain in the United States.