The treaty concluded the Armenian involvement in the Third Mithridatic War and established Armenia as a Roman client state, significantly reducing its territorial ambitions in the Near East.

[4] Facing internal revolt and the threat of Roman invasion, Tigranes the Great surrendered to Pompey at Artaxata, accepting terms that preserved his throne but dismantled his empire.

In the immediate term, it solidified Roman hegemony over Anatolia and the Levant, with Pompey reorganizing the eastern provinces into directly administered territories such as Syria while restoring client kingdoms like Cappadocia.

[13] Despite these external pressures, Armenia maintained a degree of cultural and political autonomy under kings like Artavasdes II, who balanced alliances with Rome and Parthia while patronizing Hellenistic art and scholarship.

His reorganization of Anatolia and the Levant into provinces and client states stabilized Rome’s eastern frontier but also entrenched a system of indirect rule that required constant military and diplomatic maintenance.