Sabiktas

Sabiktas († after 333 BC) was a governor of Alexander the Great .

Sabiktas was a Persian and probably came from Cappadocia . He was born in the summer of 333 BC. Appointed by Alexander as satrap of Cappadocia on the Taurus (southern Cappadocia ), as the successor of Mithrobuzanes, who fell on Granikos . However, Sabiktas could not hold himself in this position and was probably driven out of Cappadocia by a Persian counter-offensive shortly after the Battle of Issus .

This province therefore remained outside the empire conquered by Alexander , in which especially the satrap of the Pontic Cappadocia (Northern Cappadocia), Ariarathes , was able to establish an independent rule.

Sabikta's name is passed down from Arrian ( Anabasis 2.4.2), who has also largely established itself as a personal designation in the specialist literature. Curtius Rufus (3.4.1), however, called him Abistamenes .

literature

Julius Kaerst : Abistamenes . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 101.

personal data
SURNAME	Sabiktas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Abistamenes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Satrap of Cappadocia
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 333 BC Chr.