Mamas (Hun prince)

Mamas
Prince of the Huns
BornPannonia, Hunnic Empire
DiedCarsum, Thrace
Cause of deathImpalement

Mamas was a Hun royal family member who was impaled by Attila in Thrace.

He was a young Hunnic prince who defected to the Romans.[1] After the Huns and the Romans made a treaty which provided that all fugitives to the Romans be returned to the Huns, he and another Hun prince, Atakam, were handed over to the Huns in Carsum, Thrace, and impaled there.[2][3]

It is possible that he was baptized.[4]

  1. ^ Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (2022). Knight, Max (ed.). The World of the Huns Studies in Their History and Culture. University of California Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780520357204. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  2. ^ Cook, John Granger (2018). Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World. Mohr Siebeck. p. 307. ISBN 9783161560019. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  3. ^ Kim, Hyun Jin (2015). The Huns. Taylor & Francis. p. 93. ISBN 9781317340911. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  4. ^ Maenchen-Helfen, Otto J. (2022). The World of the Huns Studies in Their History and Culture. University of California Press. p. 418. ISBN 9780520302617. Retrieved 26 October 2022.