Pharnajom orPharnajob (Georgian:ფარნაჯომი, ფარნაჯობი; died 90 BC) was a king (mepe) ofIberia from 109 to 90 BC, the fourth in theP'arnavaziani line. He is known exclusively from the royal list included in the medievalGeorgian chronicles.

Pharnajom succeeded on death of his father,Mirian I in 109 BC. He is reported to have added another idol, that of the godZaden, to the Iberian pagan pantheon, and to have built a fortress to house it.

Prior to 90 BC, Pharnajom converted to Zoroastrianism, abandoning K'art'velian polytheism.^[1] His nobles sent an ambassador to the king of Armenia promising the throne to his son,Artaxias.^[2] At the battle of Tasiri between Pharnajom and his nobles, the king is defeated and killed, and the crown given toArtaxias I of Iberia.^[3] Pharnajom's son,Mirian (Mirvan), survives, however, to be taken and brought up at theParthian court.

• Thomson, Robert W. (1996),Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles, p. 42.Oxford University Press,ISBN 0-19-826373-2.
• Rapp, Stephen H. (2003),Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts, pp. 282–284. Peeters BvbaISBN 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. Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia.Traditio 25 (1969), pp. 10–11.

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