Hypsicratea

63 BC), was the concubine, and perhaps wife, of King Mithridates VI of Pontus.

However, in the battle, the two, along with two other unnamed companions, were separated from the rest of their cavalry and escaped, while Pompey killed or captured nearly ten thousand of Mithridates' troops.

[3] After their escape, Hypsicratea followed Mithridates north, along the east coast of the Black Sea, to Sinora, along with around 3000 other survivors of the Battle of the Lycus that joined them later.

[5] Plutarch wrote that she was: Valerius Maximus reports: In 2004, a brief epitaph of Hypsicratea was discovered by archaeologists in Phanagoria.

"[6] The epitaph was inscribed on a block of marble, which formed part of the base of a bronze statue of Hypsicratea.