Madyes
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Madyes was a Scythian king who ruled during the period of the Scythian presence in West Asia in the 7th century BCE.
The Scythian kingdom in West Asia reached its maximum extent under Madyes's reign.
Madyes's maternal grandfather, the Assyrian king Esarhaddon.
Madyes's maternal uncle, the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
An Assyrian relief depicting Cimmerian mounted warriors.
Šērūʾa-ēṭirat
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Šērūʾa-ēṭirat, called Saritrah in later Aramaic texts, was an ancient Assyrian princess of the Sargonid dynasty, the eldest daughter of Esarhaddon and the older sister of his son and successor Ashurba
Madyes
…the period of the Scythian presence in West Asia in the 7th century BCE. Madyes was the son of the Scythian king Bartatua and the Assyrian princess Šērūʾa-ēṭirat, and, as an ally of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which was then the superpower of West Asia and whose king Ashurbanipal was his uncle, he brought Scythian…
Šērūʾa-ēṭirat's c. 670 BCE letter to her younger brother Ashurbanipal's wife Libbāli-šarrat, in which she reprimands her for not doing her homework