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Å Ä“rūʾa-Ä“á¹irat
Å Ä“rūʾa-Ä“á¹irat ( or , meaning "Å erua is the one who saves"), called Saritrah (Demotic (Egyptian), Demotic: , ) in later Aramaic texts), was an ancient Assyrian princess of the Sargonid dynasty, the eldest daughter of Esarhaddon and the older sister of his son and successor Ashurbanipal. She is the only one of Esarhaddon's daughters to be known by name and inscriptions listing the royal children suggest that she outranked several of her brothers, such as her younger brother Ashur-mukin-paleya, AÅ¡Å¡ur-mukin-paleʾa, but ranked below the crown princes Ashurbanipal and Shamash-shum-ukin. Her importance could be explained by her possibly being the oldest of all Esarhaddon's children. Å Ä“rūʾa-Ä“á¹irat lived into Ashurbanipal's reign, although her eventual fate is unknown; she may have married the Scythians, Scythian king Bartatua and have become the mother of his successor Madyes; a later Aramaic story has her play a central role in attempting to broker peace between Ashur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madyes
Madyes was a Scythian king who ruled during the period of the Scythian presence in West Asia in the 7th century BCE. Madyes was the son of the Scythian king Bartatua and the Assyrian princess Å Ä“rūʾa-Ä“á¹irat, and, as an ally of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which was then the superpower of West Asia and whose king Ashurbanipal was his uncle, he brought Scythian power to its peak in West Asia. After the Neo-Assyrian Empire started unravelling, Madyes was assassinated by the Median king Cyaxares, who expelled the Scythians from West Asia. Name The name is the Latinised form of (), which is itself the Ancient Greek form of an Old Iranic name. Iranologist had initially suggested that the original form of Madyes's name was Scythian , meaning "mead", derived from a term for honey, . However, the Iranic sound had evolved into in Proto-Scythian, and later evolved into in Scythian, due to which the Proto-Iranic term had become in Scythian, hence why the scholar considered th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
