Artazostre

Artazostre or Artozostre ( Old Persian Arta zausri ) was a daughter of Darius I.

Herodotus ( 6.43 ) reported that Artazostre was married to Mardonius, the son of Gobryas after he was army commander of the Persian army in Thrace and Macedonia ( 493/492 BC).

Artazostre was not mentioned in the Persian cuneiform texts. However, official documents were found with their name in Persepolis. Another mention of it found in a cuneiform tablet from the year 498 BC as the wife of Mardonius, daughter of a king. You should have taken a trip with Gobryas and a woman named Aradušnamuya / Ardušnamuya, for the Persian king approved Wegrationen. Mardonius had possibly Artazostre a son named Artontes.