[TURKEY.EAST 27873] 'Mithradates shaking hands with Hercules-1.'  	At Arsameia, the ruined capital of the Commagene kingdom in the first century BC, a relief shows king Mithradates Kallinikos (left) shaking hands with Hercules, who in Commagene also represented the persian god Artagnes. Commagene was a small independent kingdom squeezed between the Roman Empire and the Parthian (Persian) kingdom, east of modern Adiyaman. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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