They assisted in his campaigns, and in 1072 one son  of  the  family  purchased the Bagratid capital city of Ani, which he and his descendants ruled, albeit with interruptions, until 1199. One month after the date of the Dashtadem inscription, Shahanshah was driven out of Ani by Georgian King Giorgi. Perhaps he had prudently reinforced this fortress to be his bolt-hole. In any case, his departure was temporary; the Seljuk sultan ravaged southern Georgia, and an Armenian inscription of 1193 and Arabic inscription of 1198/9 attest that Shahanshah/Sultan was again ruling in Ani at the time of its conquest by the Zakarian brothers Ivane and Zakare. The Shaddadids thereupon faded away.