Artagnes-Herakles-Ares is the warrior god of Antiochus I's pantheon, fusing the Greek hero Herakles and the war-god Ares with the Iranian Vərəθraγna (later Bahram), whose Avestan name means 'smiting of resistance' and who personifies victory as an emanation of Ahura Mazda. He occupies the third place in the cult-law inscription, embodying the martial function in the tri-functional ordering of the Commagenian gods. In the dexiosis reliefs he is rendered through Greek iconography as a nude, bearded, club-bearing Herakles clasping the hand of the king, so that the Iranian victory-god and the Greek strongman are presented as a single divine guarantor of royal strength and triumph.