During the reign of the Artaxerxes II, Autophradates captured Artabazus, the satrap of Lydia and Ionia who had revolted against the Persian king, and made him his prisoner, but afterwards was forced to set him free.

Pharnabazus now sailed with his prisoners to Lycia, and Autophradates attacked the other islands in the Aegean Sea which supported Alexander the Great.

[2] Autophradates appears as a seated satrap in audience on the tomb of the Lycian dignitary Payava, now visible in the British Museum.

He is seated on a stool covered with a cloth, and having legs with knobs of a common Persian form; his right hand is raised as if stroking his beard.

On the left an attendant stands with his hands folded across his breast in Oriental manner; he wears a sleeved tunic girt at the waist.