Ancient population · Antiquity

Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)

Name: Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia) (Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible)
Creator: Genoplot

Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible

Beniamin Artaxiad Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible), with 1 sample from Armenia, dated to c. 0 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to SE Gaziantep Byzantine (Medieval), Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia) and Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey); the nearest living populations are Armenian Gurin, Georgian Meskheti and Armenian Aintab.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup R1b.

Period: Antiquity
Date: c. 0 CE
Country: Armenia
Sampled near: Beniamin 40.69, 43.85
Samples: 1
Published in: AntonioPritchardeLife2024
Catalogue: Armenia_Beniamin_Artaxiad_Roman_possible.SG variant

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#	Population	Distance
1	SE Gaziantep Byzantine (Medieval)`SE_Gaziantep_Byz`	2.58
2	Beniamin Sasanian (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Sasanian`	2.90
3	Post Medieval (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_PostMedieval`	3.83
4	Southeast Byzantine (Medieval, Turkey)`Turkey_SoutheastByzantine`	3.83
5	Beniamin Hellenistic (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Hellenistic`	3.84
6	Turkey (Iron Age) · Turkey_IA`Turkey_IA`	3.93
7	Antiquity (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Antiquity`	3.96
8	Hasanlu (Middle Bronze Age, Iran)`Iran_Hasanlu_MBA`	3.99
9	Beniamin Achaemenid Artaxiad Hellenistic Roman possible (Antiquity, Armenia)`Armenia_Beniamin_Achaemenid_Artaxiad_Hellenistic_Roman_possible`	4.03
10	Armenia (Early Medieval)`Armenia_EarlyMedieval`	4.05

Modern
#	Population	Distance
1	Armenian Gurin`Armenian_Gurin`	2.77
2	Georgian Meskheti`Georgian_Meskheti`	2.81
3	Armenian Aintab`Armenian_Aintab`	3.39
4	Armenian`Armenian`	3.56
5	Assyrian Mardin`Assyrian_Mardin`	3.77
6	Armenian Ararat`Armenian_Ararat`	3.83
7	Georgian Jew`Georgian_Jew`	3.87
8	Armenian Hemsheni`Armenian_Hemsheni`	3.88
9	Armenian Erzurum`Armenian_Erzurum`	3.88
10	Turkish Trabzon`Turkish_Trabzon`	3.92

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

R1b1a1b1b R-Y81705

Individuals 1

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

Sample	Sex	Date	Site	Y-DNA
`R11541.SG`	M	44 calBCE - 61 calCE	Beniamin	R1b1a1b1b R-Y81705