# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/monobaz-i
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:14:55.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/monobaz-i"
name: "Monobaz I"
slug: "monobaz-i"
description: "Monobaz I was king of the Parthian client state of Adiabene in the 20s and 30s of the 1st century AD. He was the husband of Queen Helena of Adiabene. With Helena he fathered Izates bar Monobaz and Monobaz II. Midrash Genesis Rabbah 46:10 conflates the identity of Monobaz I with King Ptolemy, “‘And circumcise the flesh of your foreskin’ : [The foreskin] hangs on the body like a sore (nomi). It happened that king Munbaz and Zawatus (=Izates), the sons of King Ptolemy, were sitting and reading the book of Genesis. When they came to this verse, ‘and circumcise the flesh of your foreskin,’ one turned his face to the wall and began to cry, and the other turned his face to the wall and [also] began to cry.[21] Then each of them went and had himself circumcised [without the other knowing].”"
tagline: "1st‑century AD king of Adiabene"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "-50"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.79
  momentum:             11.02941176470588
  historical:           6.545717333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%96"
    title: "מונבז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobaz_I"
    title: "Monobaz I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B2_%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%85"
    title: "مونوباز یکم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobaze_Ier"
    title: "Monobaze Ier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%96_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "מונבז הראשון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%8E%E3%83%90%E3%82%BE%E3%82%B91%E4%B8%96"
    title: "モノバゾス1世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobas_I"
    title: "Monobas I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3015219"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump