Tugdamme
Cimmerian king
Also known as: Lygdamis
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history of Anatolia
- In Anatolia: The Cimmerians, Lydia, and Cilicia, c. 700–547 bce
…time the Cimmerian leader was Tugdamme (Lygdamis), who is identified in Greek tradition as the victor over Sardis in 652 and is also said to have attacked Ephesus. A nonaggression pact signed between Ashurbanipal and Tugdamme, if correctly dated after the mid-650s, confirms the Greek data concerning Tugdamme’s involvement in…
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