Artumpara

Artumpara, also Arttum̃para, Artembares (Persian name, *Rtambura, self-identified as "the Mede) was an Achaemenid Satrap of Lycia circa 400-370 BCE.

[1] He was involved in the Great Satraps' Revolt on the side of central Achaemenid authority in 366-360 BCE, helping to put down the rebel Datames.

[4] Artumpara is known to have competed for power with another man named Mithrapata.

[2] The portrait of Artumpara appears on his coinage, wearing the Achaemenid satrapal headdress.

[2] This Achaemenid biographical article is a stub.

Location of Lycia. Anatolia / Asia Minor in the Greco-Roman period. The classical regions, including Lycia, and their main settlements