Rhadamistus Lowering Zenobia into the Araxes River, 1856, François-Nicolas Chifflart, French, Saint-Omer 1825–Paris 1901, 19 7/16 × 19 3/8 in. ( × cm), Black chalk and charcoal heightened with white chalk on gray-green wove paper, France, 19th-20th century, The tale of Zenobia involves incest, intrigue, murder, and sacrifice. Zenobia was the daughter of Mithridates, the king of Armenia, and his wife, who was Mithridates’ niece and the daughter of the king of Iberia. Zenobia’s husband, Rhadamistus, also a son of the Iberian king, was thus the brother or half-brother of her mother.

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