Ghadam ( ka, ღადამი) or Adam (ადამი) was a king of
Iberia
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Kartli
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, modern eastern
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) whose three years of reign are scarcely recorded in the medieval Georgian chronicles. He is otherwise unattested elsewhere. Professor
Cyril Toumanoff
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suggests AD 132–135 as the possible years of Ghadam’s rule. The king’s name is surmised by modern scholars to be a corrupted form of Rhadamistus, not an uncommon name in the ancient
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royal and noble families.
According to the Georgian annals, Ghadam was the son of
P’arsman the Good who is the Pharasmanes, king of the Iberians, of
Cassius Dio
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and some other
Classical authors. He died after three years of reign, leaving the regency of his one-year-old son,
P’arsman, in the hands of his mother
Ghadana of Armenia.
[Toumanoff, Cyril. Chronology of the Early Kings of Iberia. ''Traditio'' 25 (1969), p. 16.][ Rapp, Stephen H. (2003), ''Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts'', pp. 290-291. Peeters Publishers, .]
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Pharnavazid kings of Iberia
2nd-century monarchs in Asia
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