Belesys I.
Belesys ( Babylonian: Bēlšunu; † after 401 BC) was an official in the Greater Persian Empire of the Achaemenids at the end of the 5th century BC. His father was called Bēl-uṣuršu.
Belesys' name is recorded on clay tablets from Babylon . There he officiated between the years 421 and 414 BC. As provincial chief ( pihatu ), whereby he was subordinate to the Babylonian satrap Gobryas (Gubaru).
From around 407 BC. Belesys himself took up the office of satrap of the Transeuphratene Eber-Nāri . In this role he will be at Xenophon ( Anabasis 1.4.10) for the year 401 BC. Called BC. On his way to Mesopotamia, the rebellious Prince Cyrus the Younger looted the residence and the gardens of the satrap Belesys on the Dardas River near Aleppo .
Belesys had a son, Marduk-erība (or Erībā), who lived in 402 BC. BC himself officiated as satrap of Babylonia. Presumably the later named satrap of Syria of the same name was one of his descendants.
literature
- Pierre Briant : From Cyrus to Alexander. A History of the Persian Empire. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake IN 2002, ISBN 1-57506-031-0 .
- Matthew W. Stolper : Bēlšunu the Satrap. In: Francesca Rochberg-Halton (Ed.): Language, Literature, and History. Philological and Historical Studies Presented to Erica Reiner (= American Oriental Series . 67). American Oriental Society, New Haven CT 1987, ISBN 0-940490-67-6 , pp. 389-402.
- Matthew W. Stolper: The Babylonian Enterprise of Belesys. In: Pierre Briant (ed.): Dans les pas des Dix-Mille. Peuples et pays du Proche-Orient vus par un Grec (= Pallas. 43, ISSN 0031-0387 ). Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse 1995, pp. 217-238.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Belesys I. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bēlšunu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Satrap the Transeuphratene |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 401 BC Chr. |