# Pharnajom

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**Pharnajom** or **Pharnajob** (Georgian: *ფარნაჯომი*, ფარნაჯობი; died 90 BC) was a king (*[mepe](/source/Mepe_(title))*) of [Iberia](/source/Kingdom_of_Iberia_(antiquity)) from 109 to 90 BC, the fourth in the [P'arnavaziani](/source/Pharnabazid_dynasty) line. He is known exclusively from the royal list included in the medieval [Georgian](/source/Georgia_(country)) chronicles.

Pharnajom succeeded on death of his father, [Mirian I](/source/Mirian_I_of_Iberia) in 109 BC. He is reported to have added another idol, that of the god [Zaden](/source/Zaden), to the Iberian pagan pantheon, and to have built a fortress to house it.

Prior to 90 BC, Pharnajom converted to [Zoroastrianism](/source/Zoroastrianism), abandoning K'art'velian polytheism.[1] He built a fire temple in [Nekresi](/source/Nekresi).[2] His nobles sent an ambassador to the king of Armenia promising the throne to his son, [Artaxias](/source/Artaxias_I_of_Iberia).[3] At the battle of Tasiri between Pharnajom and his nobles, the king is defeated and killed, and the crown given to [Artaxias I of Iberia](/source/Artaxias_I_of_Iberia).[4] Pharnajom's son, [Mirian (Mirvan)](/source/Mirian_II_of_Iberia), survives, however, to be taken and brought up at the [Parthian](/source/Parthian_Empire) court.

## References

1. Rapp 2014, p. 230.

1. Baumer 2021, p. 149.

1. Rapp 2014, pp. 230–231.

1. Rapp 2014, p. 231.

## Sources

- Baumer, Christoph (2021). *History of the Caucasus*. Vol. 1: At the Crossroads of Empires. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780755639694.
- Thomson, Robert W. (1996), *Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles*, p. 42. [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), ISBN 0-19-826373-2.
- [Rapp, Stephen H.](/source/Stephen_H._Rapp_Jr) (2003), *Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts*, pp. 282–284. Peeters Bvba ISBN 90-429-1318-5.
- Rapp, Stephen H. (2014). *The Sasanian World Through Georgian Eyes: The Iranian Commonwealth in Late Antique Georgian Literature*. Routledge.
- [Toumanoff, Cyril](/source/Toumanoff,_Cyril). Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia. *Traditio* 25 (1969), pp. 10–11.

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