Sattagydia

Sattagydia
𐎰𐎫𐎦𐎢𐏁
Sāttagydiⁿa (Old Persian)
Satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire
513 BCE–c. 4th century BCE
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Sāttagydiⁿa was part of the eastern territories of the Achaemenid Empire
Government
 • TypeMonarchy
King or
King of Kings
 
• 513–499 BCE
Darius I (first)
• 358–338 BC
Artaxerxes III
Historical eraAchaemenid era
513 BCE
• Disestablished
c. 4th century BCE
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Achaemenid Empire
Macedonian Empire
Today part of Pakistan
Sattagydia
Sattagydia (𓐠𓂧𓎼𓍯𓍒𓈉, S-d-g-wꜣ-ḏꜣ), on the Egyptian Statue of Darius I.[1][2]
Sattagydian Achaemenid soldier
Xerxes I tomb, Sattagydian soldier of the Achaemenid army, circa 480 BCE.[3][4]
Xerxes I tomb, Sattagydian soldier circa 480 BCE (detail).
The name for Sattagydia (𐎰𐎫𐎦𐎢𐏁, Thataguš) in the DNa inscription of Darius I.

Sattagydia (Old Persian: 𐎰𐎫𐎦𐎢𐏁 Thataguš, country of the "hundred cows") was one of the easternmost regions of the Achaemenid Empire, part of its Seventh tax district according to Herodotus,[5] along with Gandārae, Dadicae and Aparytae.[6][7][8] It was situated east of the Sulaiman Mountains up to the Indus River in the basin around Bannu in modern day's southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[9]

  1. ^ "Susa, Statue of Darius - Livius". www.livius.org.
  2. ^ Yar-Shater, Ehsan (1982). Encyclopaedia Iranica. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 10. ISBN 9780933273955.
  3. ^ Naqs-e Rostam – Encyclopaedia Iranica.
  4. ^ Naqs-e Rostam – Encyclopaedia Iranica List of nationalities of the Achaemenid military with corresponding drawings.
  5. ^ Herodotus III 91, III 94
  6. ^ Mitchiner, Michael (1978). The ancient & classical world, 600 B.C.-A.D. 650. Hawkins Publications ; distributed by B. A. Seaby. p. 44. ISBN 9780904173161.
  7. ^ Jigoulov, Vadim S. (2016), The Social History of Achaemenid Phoenicia: Being a Phoenician, Negotiating Empires, Routledge, p. 21, ISBN 978-1-134-93809-4
  8. ^ Eggermont, Alexander's Campaigns in Sind and Baluchistan 1975.
  9. ^ Fleming, Achaemenid Sattagydia 1982, p. 105.