Arbaces
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Arbaces, according to Ctesias, one of the generals of Sardanapalus, king of Assyria and founder of the Median empire about 830 BC. But Ctesias's whole history of the Assyrian and Median empires is wholly fictional; Arbaces and his successors are not historical personages. From the inscriptions of Sargon II of Assyria we know one Arbaku gnast of Arnashia as one of forty-five chiefs of Median districts who paid tribute to Sargon in 713 BC.
Arbaces or Arbaku is also the Akkadian spelling for the name of the 6th Century BCE Median general, Harpagus.
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