[or-roots] interesting names - Zantaphine

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Google turned up this, in case you haven't already seen it. It doesn't help with the origin of the name though.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jtenlen/ORBios/ajfanno.txt

A search using "Genealogy AND Zanta" kicks out all kinds of stuff. This was interesting:

Arm. Pʿawstos (Latin, “fortunate”), fifth-century author of the Patmutʿiwn Hayocʿ (History of the Armenians) or Buzandaran. He is surnamed Buzand, a word taken to mean either “the Byzantine” or, as Anahit Perikhanian has proposed, “composer of epics”: from OIr *bava(t)-zanta-, cf. NP. zandvāf “Zoroastrian, lit. chanter of the Zand” (pp. 653-57). Buzandaran would mean something like “Epic Histories.” There seems little doubt that, whoever the person Pʿawstos may have been, the History ascribed to him was composed in Armenian by an Armenian steeped in the Iranian traditions of the newly Christianized land. ...

(I put the red on it).
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