Rhadamistus Lowering Zenobia into the Araxes River, 1856, Fran?ois-Nicolas Chifflart, French, Saint-Omer 1825¡VParis 1901, 19 7/16 ¡Ñ 19 3/8 in. (49.4 ¡Ñ 49.2 cm), Black chalk and charcoal heightened with white chalk on gray-green wove paper, France, 19th-20th century, The tale of Zenobia involves incest, intrigue, murder, and sacrifice. Zenobia was the daughter of Mithridates, the king of Armenia, and his wife, who was Mithridates¡¦ niece and the daughter of the king of Iberia. Zenobia¡¦s husband, Rhadamistus, also a son of the Iberian king, was thus the brother or half-brother of her mother. What could go wrong'.