Sauromates
3. SAUROMATES III. was the successor of EUPATOR, and must have become king of Bosporus before the death of M. Aurelius. His earliest extant coin bears the head of that emperor, with the date of 474 (A. D. 178). Others have the heads of Commodus, Severus, and Caracalla, the latest date being A. D. 210. His reign must thus have comprised a period of more than thirty-two years. He was succeeded by RHESCUPORIS III. The annexed coin has the head of Commodus, with the date 475 (A. D. 180).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.