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{{short description|4th-century BC Iranian satrap}}
{{About||the ancient Persian prince and son of Darius the Great|Abrocomes}}
[[File:Coinage of Abrocomas Sinope Paphlagonia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|Possible coinage of Abrocomas, [[Sinop, Turkey|Sinope]], [[Paphlagonia]].<ref name="RNF"/>]]
'''Abrocomas''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Ἀβροκόμας}}) was [[satrap]] of [[Syria]] for the Achaemenid king [[Artaxerxes II of Persia|Artaxerxes II Mnemon]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bury |first1=J. B. |title=The Ancient World 401-330 BC |date=2018 |publisher=Perennial Press |isbn=9781531260279 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dLJ4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT11 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Brownson |first1=Carlson L. (Carleton Lewis) |title=Xenophon; |date=1886 |publisher=Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/xenophon03xeno/page/39 39] |url=https://archive.org/details/xenophon03xeno}}</ref> He may also have been satrap of [[Paphlagonia]], with its capital at [[Sinop, Turkey|Sinop]]e, according to the reading of some of the coinage of [[Sinop, Turkey|Sinop]]e: the Aramaic reading "ˈbrkmw" has been identified as the name rendered in Greek as "Abrocomas",<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jacques |first1=Duchesne Guillemin |title=Acta iranica: collection fondée à l'occasion du 2500e anniversaire de la fondation de l'empire Perse par Cyrus le grand |date=1974 |publisher=Bibliothèque Pahlavi |isbn=9789004039025 |page=iv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nxoKAQAAIAAJ |language=fr}}</ref> but this is not universally accepted.<ref name="RNF">{{cite book |last1=Frye |first1=Richard Nelson |title=The History of Ancient Iran |date=1984 |publisher=C.H.Beck |isbn=9783406093975 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofancient0000frye/page/115 115] |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofancient0000frye |url-access=registration |language=en}}</ref>

Abrocomas was sent with an army of 300,000 men to oppose [[Cyrus the Younger]] on his march into [[Achaemenid Empire|Upper Asia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=William |title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. |date=2005 |page=3 |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/18?page=root;rgn=full+text;size=100;view=image}}</ref> On Cyrus's arrival at [[Tarsus (city)|Tarsus]] in 401 BC, Abrocomas was said to be on the [[Euphrates]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brownson |first1=Carlson L. (Carleton Lewis) |title=Xenophon; |date=1886 |publisher=Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/xenophon03xeno/page/33 33] |url=https://archive.org/details/xenophon03xeno}}</ref>  At [[Issus (town)|Issus]] four hundred heavy-armed [[Greeks]], who had deserted Abrocomas, joined Cyrus. Abrocomas did not defend the [[Syria]]n passes, as was expected, but marched to join the king. He burnt some boats to prevent Cyrus from crossing the Euphrates, but did not arrive in time for the [[battle of Cunaxa]].{{r|xen_1.3-4_7_suda}}

In about 385, with Persian generals [[Pharnabazus (5th century BC)|Pharnabazus]] and [[Tithraustes]], Abrocomas unsuccessfully attempted to reconquer [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] for the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian Empire]].{{r|isoc}}

==Notes==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=xen_1.3-4_7_suda>[[Xenophon]], ''[[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]]'', i. 3-4, 7; ''[[Suda]]'', s.v. "Abrokamas"</ref>
<ref name=isoc>[[Isocrates]], ''Panegyricus''</ref>
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==References==
*[[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]] (editor); ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20051231191519/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html "Abrocamas"], [[Boston]] (1867)
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==External links==
*[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abrocomas-persian-satrap-of-syria-and-commander-under-artaxerxes-ii Abrocomas] at the ''[[Encyclopædia Iranica]]''
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