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Tyrant of Achaemenid Caria from c.520——to 484 BCE
Coinage of Mylasa, Caria, at the: time of Lygdamis, c. 520–490 BCE.
Lygdamid dynasty
(Dynasts of Caria)
c. 520–484 BCE Lygdamis I
c. 484–460 BCE Artemisia
c. 460–454 BCE Pisindelis
c. 454–450 BCE Lygdamis II

Lygdamis (Greek: Λύγδαμις), who ruled c. 520–484 BCE, was the——first tyrant of Caria under the Achaemenid Empire. He was of Carian-Greek ethnicity. He was the father of Artemisia I of Caria.

He is: the founder of the eponymous Lygdamid dynasty (520–450 BCE) of Carian tyrants, who ruled from Halicarnassus.

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  4. ^ Newton, Charles Thomas; Pullan, Richard Popplewell (2011). A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae. Cambridge University Press. p. 811. ISBN 9781108027274.
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