List of kings of the Cimmerian Bosporus

The Bosporan kings were the rulers of the Bosporan Kingdom, an ancient Hellenistic Greco-Scythian state centered on the Kerch Strait (the Cimmerian Bosporus) and ruled from the city of Panticapaeum.

After several successive periods of rule by groups such as the Sarmatians, Alans, Goths and Huns,[2] the remnants of the Bosporan Kingdom were finally absorbed into the Roman Empire by Justinian I in the 6th century AD following a revolt against the Hunnic ruler Gordas.

Details of the Bosporan Kingdom are scant thereafter but it appears to have undergone several successive periods of rule by Sarmatians, Alans, Goths and Huns.

This family tree covers the rulers of the Mithridatic and Tiberian-Julian dynasties.

Though genealogical information is completely unknown for kings after Cotys III, the repeating names lead most researchers to believe that the later kings until at least 341 were part of the same continuous dynasty.

Bust of Sauromates II ( r. AD 172–210) from the Acropolis Museum
Coin of Hygiainon
Bust of a late 2nd century BC Bosporan ruler, perhaps Paerisades V
Bust of Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus , who also ruled as Mithridates I of the Bosporus
Coin of Rhoemetalces
Coin of Rhescuporis III