Orontes IV
Engraving of Orontes IV by Josef I. Rotter
King ofArmenia
Reign	212 – 200 BC
Coronation	212 BC
Successor	Artaxias I
Died	200 BC Armenia
Burial	Armavir
Issue	Ptolemaeus of Commagene
Dynasty	Orontid dynasty
Father	Arsames I

Orontes IV (Old Persian:*Arvanta-) was the son of KingArsames and is recorded as rulingArmenia from inscriptions found at the historic capital of theOrontid dynasty,Armavir. He was the founder of the city ofYervandashat andErvandakert.In his reign the religious site ofBagaran was founded. Large bronze statues in theHellenistic style of the gods,Zeus (Aramazd),Artemis (Anahit) andHerakles (Vahagn) were brought there and set up in temples dedicated to them. He is also said to have founded a shrine at Armavir dedicated toApollo (Mithra), a golden statue of four horses pulling a chariot with Apollo as god of the Sun. This was later destroyed by theSassanid Persian army in the 4th century AD.^{[citation needed]}

Antiochus III, King of the Seleucid Empire, instigated a revolt against Orontes, headed byArtaxias I.^[1]Aramaic inscriptions found at Armavir state that King Orontes IV died at the hands of his own army, in other words by betrayal fromArtaxias I.Artaxias I was appointed as King ofArmenia, by Antiochus.^[1]

Orontes IV had a son,Ptolemaeus of Commagene,^[2] who served as the lastSatrap of Commagene between 201 and 163 BC, became in 163 BC the firstKing of Commagene and died in 130 BC.

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