Editing Abgar V (section)

== Background ==
[[File:100,000_Armenian_dram_-_2009_(obverse).jpg|250px|thumb|left|Abgar V on an Armenian banknote]]
Abgar was described as "king of the [[Arabs]]" by the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] historian [[Tacitus]], a near-contemporary source.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.syriac.talktalk.net/chron_tab1.html|title=History of Syriac texts and Syrian Christianity - Table 1|last1=Ring|first1=Steven|website=www.syriac.talktalk.net|access-date=2018-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227034200/http://www.syriac.talktalk.net/chron_tab1.html|archive-date=2018-02-27|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_12#12|title = ''The Annals'' 12.12}}</ref> The 5th-century [[Armenians|Armenian]] historian [[Movses Khorenatsi|Moses of Chorene]] depicted Abgar as an Armenian,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art|last=Nersessian|first=Vrej|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2001|isbn=978-0892366392|pages=224}}</ref><ref>Armenian Van/Vaspurakan - p.68, Richard G. Hovannisian</ref> but modern scholarly consensus agree that the [[Abgarids]] were in fact an Arab dynasty.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bowman|first1=Alan|last2=Garnsey|first2=Peter|last3=Cameron|first3=Averil|title=The Cambridge Ancient History: Volume 12, The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337|date=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521301992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MNSyT_PuYVMC&q=%22arab+principality+of+edessa%22&pg=PA508|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Osroene|title = Osroëne &#124; ancient kingdom, Mesopotamia, Asia}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Skolnik|first1=Fred|last2=Berenbaum|first2=Michael|title=Encyclopaedia Judaica|date=2007|publisher=Macmillan Reference USA|isbn=9780028659435|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JD0OAQAAMAAJ&q=%22the+Arab+kingdom%22|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=John Morris|last2=Westad|first2=Odd Arne|title=The History of the World|date=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199936762|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A2cfZkU5aQgC&q=Abgar+%22nabataean+arabic+state%22&pg=PA246|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=ABGAR Encyclopaedia Iranica|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abgar-dynasty-of-edessa-2nd-century-bc-to-3rd-century-ad|website=www.iranicaonline.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Laet|first1=Sigfried J. de|last2=Herrmann|first2=Joachim|title=History of Humanity: From the seventh century B.C. to the seventh century A.D.|date=1996|publisher=UNESCO|isbn=9789231028120|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WGUz01yBumEC&q=%22Abgar+family%22&pg=PA140|language=en}}</ref>

Moses of Chorene notes that Abgar V's chief wife was Queen [[Helena of Adiabene]],<ref>{{ws|{{cite book |author=Movses Khorenatsi |chapter=[[s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents/Moses of Chorene/Chapter 10|History of Armenia]] |translator-last=Pratten |translator-first=Benjamin Plummer |title=Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents |editor1-last=Roberts |editor1-first=Alexander |editor2-last=Donaldson |editor2-first=James |editor3-last=Coxe |editor3-first=Arthur Cleveland |editor4-last=Schaff |editor4-first=Philip |series=[[Ante-Nicene Fathers (book)|Ante-Nicene Fathers]] |volume=VIII |at=Chapter 10}}}}</ref> but according to the contemporary Jewish historian [[Josephus]] she was the wife of King [[Monobaz I]] of [[Adiabene]].