Gli ‘altri’ dei di Antioco I di Commagene

Modern studies on hellenistic Commagene have dedicated large space to the analysis of the religion of Antiochus I and his deities with Graeco-Roman names. Their dominance in the visual and epigraphic evidence from this kingdom might give the wrong impression that the pantheon of this Commagenian king was composed exclusively by these gods. On the contrary, the formulation of the texts implies the existence of other deities beside the synthronoi theoi. The present paper intends to follow the traces of the epichoric gods worshipped in Commagene at this time. Particular attention is devoted to the analysis of the theonym Argandene and to the possible origin of the termination in –ηνη which occurs in many toponyms of Asia Minor and Armenia.