Artoces
king of Iberia (modern-day Georgia)
Years: 110BCE - 45BCE
Artoces is a king of Iberia (modern-day Georgia) from 78 to 63 BCE.
He features in the Classical accounts of the Third Mithridatic War (Appian, Bell.
Mithr.
103, 117; Cassius Dio 37.1-2; Eutropius 6.14 [Artaces]; Festus 16; Orosius 6.4.8) and is identified with the Artag, Arik, Rok, or Aderk, of the medieval Georgian annals.
