MYSIA. Astyra. Tissaphernes, Satrap of Mysia
circa 400-395 BCE
Bronze, 10.5 mm, 0.96 g, 5 h
Helmeted head of Athena to right. Rev. ΤΙΣΣΑ Satrap, holding spear in upraised right hand, on horseback right.
Klein 255. SNG BN -. Winzer 6.3
Ex J. Metzger Collection
Ex Nomos
Tissaphernes is born.
Tissaphernes suppresses the rebellion of Pissuthnes against Darius II.
Archeptolis, who controls Magnesia ad Maeander, is removed, possibly by Tissaphernes.
Darius II removes Tissaphernes as a general, though he remains satrap of Caria.
Cyrus the Younger attempts to kill his brother Artaxerxes II at his coronation. Artaxerxes is prevented from killing Cyrus by their mother, so he instead sends him to Asia Minor. Tissaphernes is responsible for divulging the plot.
Tissaphernes tricks the leaders of the 10,000 into joining him for a dinner, then arrests and decapitates them.
During a battle between Deryklidas of Sparta and Pharnabazos with Tissaphernes, men from Priene and Achilleion fighting with the Sparta s fled. Hamaxitos and Larissa-Ptolemais thus receive their freedom again.
Tissaphernes is lured out and killed at Kolossai by Tithraustes, supported by Pharnabazos and Parysatis, the mother of Artaxerxes II.