Adobogiona the Elder

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{{Infobox royalty

|name= Adobogiona

|birth_date= c. 90 BC

|birth_place=

|death_date= c. 50 BC

|death_place=

|father= Deiotarus

|mother=

|spouse= Menodotus

|issue= Mithridates I of the Bosporus

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{{other people||Adobogiona (disambiguation)}}

Adobogiona (fl. c. 90 BC – c. 50 BC) was a Galatian princess from Anatolia.{{Cite book |last=Kaye |first=Noah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfS1EAAAQBAJ&dq=Adobogiona+mithridates&pg=PA321 |title=The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia: Money, Culture, and State Power |date=2023-02-23 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-27955-0 |language=en}} She was known as a mistress of Mithridates VI Eupator, and claimed he had fathered her children: a son, Mithridates of Pergamon, and a daughter, Adobogiona the Younger.{{Cite book |last=Magie |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YATWCgAAQBAJ&dq=Adobogiona+mithridates&pg=PA406 |title=Roman Rule in Asia Minor, Volume 1 (Text): To the End of the Third Century After Christ |date=2015-12-08 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-4979-6 |language=en}}

Adobogonia was a member of the Trokmian dynasty, rulers of Galatia; her brother was the Galatian king, Brogitaros.{{Cite book |last1=Derks |first1=Ton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fM_cmuhmSbIC&dq=Adobogiona+brogitaros&pg=PA132 |title=Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity: The Role of Power and Tradition |last2=Roymans |first2=Nico |date=2009 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-90-8964-078-9 |language=en}} She was married to Menodotus, a wealthy citizen of Pergamon.{{Cite book |last=Ellis-Evans |first=Aneurin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxGTDwAAQBAJ&dq=Adobogiona+mithridates&pg=PA256 |title=The Kingdom of Priam: Lesbos and the Troad between Anatolia and the Aegean |date=2019-04-25 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-256797-0 |language=en}} A large statue of her was set up in temple of Hera in Pergamon.{{Cite book |last=Ma |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u3LfaRlHLfwC&dq=Adobogiona+statue&pg=PA81 |title=Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World |date=2013-06-27 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-966891-5 |language=en}}