Arsames (satrap of Egypt)

Arsames
Arsames
Satrap of Egypt
	Lower half of one of the Elephantine papyri, containing a plea for the reconstruction of the Jewish temple at Elephantine, and dated to "..the Year 17 of King Darius (II), under Arsames..." (407 BCE).
Predecessor	Achaemenes
Successor	possibly none (end of the satrapy of Egypt)
Dynasty	27th Dynasty
Pharaoh	Artaxerxes I to Darius II

Arsames (also called Sarsamas and Arxanes, from Old Persian Aršāma^[2]) was an Achaemenid satrap of ancient Egypt during the 5th century BC, at the time of the 27th Dynasty of Egypt.

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