Charaspes was a Scythian king ruling in the Black Sea region.[1]

He was initially thought to be the King of Sophene c. 230 BC, attested only by a single coin currently kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

However, there is controversy whether or not this king is actually an Armenian: he is not mentioned in the inscriptions on Mount Nemrut which list the ancestors of Antiochus I Theos, and from other coin finds it appears that Charaspes was the name of a Scythian king in the western Black Sea region. It is quite possible that he is not an Armenian king, but rather a numismatical error.


References

  1. ^ Marciak, Michał (2017-01-01). "Cultural Landscape of Sophene". Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene. Brill. pp. 56–112. doi:10.1163/9789004350724_004. ISBN 978-90-04-35072-4.
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