A possible descendant of Drusilla of Mauretania and Gaius Julius Sohaemus was the Syrian Queen of the 3rd century, Zenobia of Palmyra.[20][44][45] Zenobia's possible descent from Drusilla might support Zenobia's claims of being a descendent of the last Queen of Egypt Cleopatra VII. The novelist of the 2nd century Iamblichus, claims his ancestry from the Emesene Priest Kings and was a contemporary of Sohaemus of Armenia[1] The Syrian Neoplatonist philosopher Iamblichus, who lived between the second half of the 3rd century and first half of the 4th century, claimed to be a descendant of the Emesene Priest Kings According to Patriarch of Constantinople, Scholar, and Christian Saint of the 9th century, Photios I, notes that around A.D. 500, the Syrian Pagan Philosopher Damascius, dedicated a book to a Theodora, daughter of Diogenes, son of Eusebius, son of Flavianus and a descendant of King Sampsiceramus of Emesa[20]