Tritantaechmes

Tritantaichmes ( Old Persian: Ciçantakhma; † 521 BC in Arbela ) was a self-proclaimed King of Sagartier in the late 6th century BC. He was one of eight so-called "lying kings " who had risen up against the seizure of power of Darius I..

After the death of the Persian king Cambyses II and the fall of the short-term regent Bardiya / Gaumata by Darius I in 522 BC, rebellions broke out in several provinces of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. The Medes had risen under the leadership of Phraortes, but were defeated on May 8, 521 BC at Kunduruš near Bisutun crucial.

Tritantaichmes was probably a follower of Phraortes and led after the end of the rebellion continued. He belonged to the tribe of Sagartier that belonged to the tribal confederation of the Medes. How Phraortes Tritantaichmes previously had announced a descent from the ancient Median dynasty and proclaimed himself king in Sagartien. However, he was still taken BC, defeated in a battle in the summer of 521 by the Persian army commander Takhmaspada, who was a native of the Medes and caught himself. He was cut off before Darius I. nose, ears and tongue and eyes gouged out to be crucified for it in Arbela.

Source

• Behistun inscription (DB ), table 2, § 33: Roland G. Kent, Old Persian Grammar Texts Lexicon. American Oriental Society, 1953.