310–309 BC) or Arypharnasha the Thataean was king of the Sarmatian tribe of Siraces[1] and took part in the First Bosporan Civil War of 310-309 between king Satyros II and his brother Eumelos, a pretender to the throne.
[3] Aripharnes then ordered each of the lads to hurl a javelin into their father's corpse.
[5] Aripharnes and Eumelos fought Satyrus at the Battle of River Thatis, but they were defeated by the numerically inferior Satyric army.
[6] The settlement was besieged by Satyros and after a lengthy siege, he was mortally wounded.
After this war, Aripharnes is no longer mentioned during Eumelos's later campaigns as king of the Bosporus.