Septimia Bathzabbai Zénobie

Biography

Septimia Bathzabbai Zenobia more known under the name of Zénobie , queen of Palmyre and marries Odénat, became sovereign of this kingdom towards 266 or 267 with died of this last. She made of Palmyre, the cultural hearth more the brilliance of the the Middle East.

Authoritative and skilful, it benefitted from the Roman rout against Parthes and the fixing of the Roman Emperors by the invasions on the Danube to subject the Syria, the Egypt, the Asia Mineure except for the Bithynie.

In 271, Zénobie proclaimed empress and breaks with the Roman Empire and gives to his/her son Wahballat (Vaballatus) the title of Auguste. The emperor Aurélien decides to put a stagnation point at the activities of Zénobie and sends his troops in Egypt.

In war against the Roman empire, she arrives to some successes, before being overcome by the emperor Aurélien in 272 which demolishes its troops, seizes Palmyre and makes her captive queen. Taken along to Rome, it decorates the triumph of this one. Aurélien avoids crown and imperial coat and reinstates the kingdom of Palmyre in the Empire.

Then exiled in Tibur (today Tivoli), the Zénobie queen died in 274.

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