Aspathines
Aspathines (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang".; Template:Langx Script error: No such module "lang".) (born and died sometime between 550 BC and 450BC) was a senior official under Darius the Great and Xerxes I of Persia.[2]
Aspathines is illustrated on the tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rostam, with a dedication:[3]
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Aspacanâ \ vaçabara \ Dârayavahauš \ xš
âyathiyahyâ \ isuvâm \ dârayatiy
Aspathines, the bowbearer,
holds king Darius' battle-axe.
The only other courtier to be named with a dedication was Gobryas.[3]
Aspathines had a son names Prexaspes, who became an Admiral in the navy of Xerxes during the Second Persian invasion of Greece.[5]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Aspathines - Livius.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ASPAČANĀ", Encyclopedia Iranica
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kuhrt, Amélie (2013). The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period. Routledge. p. 450. ISBN 9781136017025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.DNd - Livius.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Aspathines - Livius.
