Asander, named Philocaesar Philoromaios, 110-17 BC, Roman client king of the Bosporan Kingdom. He started his career as a general under Pharnaces II, the king of the Bosporus. Head of a youth with royal diadem. From a gold stater coin in the collection of Cardinal Camillo Massimo. Asandro. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

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