Arsames (satrap of Egypt)

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Arsames (Persian Aršāma , Greek  Ἀρσάμης , Aramaic ארשם) was a Persian satrap from Egypt in the Achaemenid Empire in the second half of the 5th century BC. It cannot be ruled out that Arsames himself was a member of the Achaemenid dynasty.

Arsames was after the suppression of the Egyptian uprising under Inaros by the Persian general Megabyzos in 454 BC. Used as governor of Egypt. 423 BC He supported Dareios II in the overthrow of Sogdianos .

Numerous documents on papyrus and leather have survived from Egypt relating to the time of Arsames. An extensive dossier contains letters from Arsames to his landlords during his absence from Egypt from 410 to 407 BC. At that time Arsames stayed in Susa and Babylon at the court of the Persian great king Dareios II. The Jahu Temple at Elephantine was also destroyed during this period . Nothing is known about the further life of Arsames after the fall of Egypt from the Achaemenid Empire under Amyrtaios (404/402 BC).

literature

  • Arthur Cowley: Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century BC Clarendon Press, Oxford 1923.
  • Godfrey R. Driver: Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century BC Clarendon Press, Oxford 1954.
  • John David Whitehead: Some Distinctive Features of the Language of the Arsames Correspondence. In: Journal of Near Eastern Studies . Vol. 37, No. 2, 1978, ISSN  0022-2968 , pp. 119-140.
  • Muchammed A. Dandamaev: A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire. Brill, Leiden et al. 1989, ISBN 90-04-09172-6 .
  • Edda Bresciani, Alireza S. Shahbazi: ARŠĀMA . In: Ehsan Yarshater (ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica . Volume 2, p. 546, as of December 15, 1986, accessed on September 9, 2014 (English, including references)
  • Ameliè Kuhrt: Arsames 3rd In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , column 35.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Dandamaev, pp. 241-243.
  2. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos : Persika , in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 14, 38 (based on the edition by Dominique Lenfant ). Here falsely Sarsames called.
  3. ↑ Ktesias von Knidos: Persika , in: The Fragments of the Greek Historians No. 688, Frag. 15, 50. Wrongly called Arxanes here .
personal data
SURNAME Poor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aršāma, Ἀρσάμης
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Satrap of Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.