According to Eusebius, the brothers sacked Mopsuestia and destroyed it to avenge Seleucus VI.

[10]
 Eusebius's statement is doubtful because in 86 BC, Rome conferred inviolability upon the cult
of Isis and Sarapis in Mopsuestia, which is proven by an inscription from the city.[45] After Mopsuestia,
Antiochus XI left Philip I in Cilicia and advanced on Antioch, driving Antiochus X from the city at the
beginning of 93 BC.[note 5][24] Ancient historians do not note Antiochus XI's reign in the capital, saying he
fought against Antiochus X and was defeated.[28] The 6th-century Byzantine monk and historian John
Malalas, whose work is considered generally unreliable by scholars, [46] mentions the reign of
Antiochus XI in his account of the Roman period in Antioch.[47] The material evidence for
Antiochus XI's success in taking the capital was provided in 1912, when an account of a coin struck
by him in Antioch was published. [28]

Philip I did not take residence in the capital and Antiochus XI minted coinage as a sole king.[note 6]
[49]
 Philip I kept the royal title while remaining in the city which was his base during the preparations to
avenge Seleucus VI.[50] The numismatist Edward Theodore Newell assigned Antiochus XI a reign of a
few weeks in the capital, but according to the numismatist Oliver Hoover, estimating the average
annual die usage rate of the King suggests a reign of several months. [note 7][48] According to Malalas,
King Antiochus Philadelphus, i.e. Antiochus XI,[note 8] built a temple for Apollo and Artemis in Daphne,
and set up two golden statues representing the gods, as well as conferring the right of asylum to
anyone who took refuge in the temple;[56] this statement cannot be correct since the temple was
attested during the time of Antiochus III (r. 222–187 BC).[57] The historian Glanville Downey,
observing Malalas's writing style in Greek, suggested that by "building" Malalas meant renovating or
restoring, which indicates a predecessor of Antiochus XI may have desecrated the temple and
melted down the golden statues.[note 9][56]