A treasure containing 3600 Greek coins (bearing the names of Lysimachus, Pharnakes and Asander) weighting 30 kg was looted in August 1998 from the Sarmizegetusa Regia site of Șesu Căprăreței.
A few later composers also set Lucchini's libretto, among them Josef Mysliveček, whose opera Farnace of 1767 was perhaps the best written after Vivaldi's setting.
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The 18th-century librettist Antonio Maria Lucchini crafted a libretto based on incidents from the life of Pharnaces II that was originally set by Antonio Vivaldi in 1727 under the title Farnace.
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His sons were made Pontian kings for a time after his death, by Roman triumvir Mark Antony.
Pontus | Mithridates VI of Pontus | Mesembria (Pontus) | Stratonice of Pontus | Pontus Hultén | Pontus de Tyard | Pontus Norgren | Pontus Hulten | Pontus Gårdinger | Pontus and Sidonia | Polemon I of Pontus | Pharnaces II of Pontus | Laodice (wife of Mithridates II of Pontus) | Laodice (wife of Mithridates III of Pontus) | Ariobarzanes of Pontus |