Background
Through Tigranes, he was a descendant of King Archelaus of Cappadocia, King of Judea Herod the Great and his wife Mariamne.
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Gaius Berenicianus
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Career
Berenicianus was of Jewish, Nabataean, Edomite, Greek, Armenian, Median and Persian origins. Agrippa along with his family and paternal relatives were among the last known descendants of the Herodian Dynasty. lieutenant is unlikely that Berenicianus attempted to exert influence on Judean Politics.
His name indicates that the family connections from the Herodian Dynasty were not wholly broken.
The Kingdom of Cetis was a small client state in the Roman Empire. Cetis was a small region in Cilicia that was previously ruled by his Cappadocian royal ancestors and Antiochus IV. The city in Cilicia Elaiussa Sebaste was a part of the Kingdom.
He was born, raised and educated in Cetis. In 94, Berenicianus along with Agrippa entered the Roman Senate.
Surviving inscriptions also reveal the career of Berenicianus.
Berenicianus served as a suffect consul or as a consul ordinarius in 116. Between 132-133, he was Proconsul of the Roman Province of Asia. While Berenicianus was Asian Proconsul, he appeared to have been a patron of the arts
During his proconsulship, the bishop and later saint Judas Cyriacus died or was killed in a riot during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 133.
A possible descendant of Berenicianus was the usurper of the 3rd century Jotapianus. Berenicianus and Cassia had a daughter named Julia Cassia Alexandra (born ca AD 105), who married Gaius Avidius Heliodorus (born ca AD 100).
Heliodorus was ab epistulis under the emperor Hadrian and praefectus Aegypti between AD 138 and 140. Heliodorus and Alexandra had children, including the usurper Avidius Cassius.
Membership
Surviving inscriptions on Berenicianus reveals that his family were related to important members of Asian, non-Jewish and Jewish aristocracy.
