Nana of Iberia

Saint Queen Nana
Mosaic of Queen Nana and her tomb (right) at the Samtavro Monastery, Mtskheta
Queen of Iberia
Tenure	292–361
Predecessor	Abeshura of Iberia
Born	3rd century Bosporan Kingdom
Died	4th century Mtskheta, Kingdom of Iberia
Burial	Samtavro Monastery, Mtskheta
Spouse	Mirian III of Iberia
Issue	Rev II of Iberia Aspacures II of Iberia anonymous daughter
Dynasty	Bosporan dynasty (by birth) Chosroid dynasty (by marriage)
Father	Tiberius Julius Theothorses?
Religion	Georgian Orthodox Church

Nana (Georgian: ნანა) was a Queen consort of Kingdom of Iberia as the second wife of Mirian III in the 4th century. For her role in the conversion of Georgians to Christianity she is regarded by the Georgian Orthodox Church as saint and is canonized as Saint Equal to the Apostles Queen Nana (Georgian: წმინდა მოციქულთასწორი დედოფალი ნანა).

According to the Georgian chronicles, Nana was "from a Greek territory, from Pontus, the daughter of Oligotos" whom Mirian married after his first wife died (in 292 according to Cyril Toumanoff). Nana bore Mirian two sons: Rev II, Varaz-Bakur and a daughter who married Peroz, the first Mihranid dynast of Gugark. Pontus here may refer to the Bosporan Kingdom, then a client state of the Roman Empire. Toumanoff has assumed that the name of Nana's father might have been a Georgian corruption of "Olympius" or "Olympus", a Bosporan dynast whose son Aurelius Valerius Sogus Olympianus, a Roman governor of Theodosia, is known from a Greek inscription of 306 dedicated to "the Most High God" on the occasion of the building of the Jewish "prayer house". Alternatively, Christian Settipani identifies Nana as a younger daughter of Theothorses, a Bosporan king.