Oktamasades

Octamasades (; Scythian: ) was a Sindian prince and usurper of the early 4th century BC, the son of king Hecataeus. Around 380 BC he attempted to seize his father's throne and attacked the town of Labryta; the Bosporan ruler Leucon I intervened in defense of Hecataeus, his vassal, defeated Octamasades at the Battle of Labryta, and expelled him from Sindica. Nothing further is known of him. He is attested only in the verse dedication that Leucon erected at Labryta after his victory. He shares the name with Octamasadas, a Scythian king of the 5th century BC mentioned by Herodotus. A Scythian name borne by a Sindian prince bears on the debated affiliation of the Sindi, who are commonly treated as a Scythian group ruling over a Maeotian population, though the question is not settled.

Biography Octamasades' father Hecataeus held the Sindian throne as a dependent of the Bosporan rulers. According to Polyaenus, he had been driven from his kingdom and restored by Satyrus I, who married him to his daughter and required him to put away his Maeotian wife Tirgatao, whose escape then set off a destructive war (Tirgatao's war). and Octamasades mother is not named in the sources; Hecataeus' attested wives are the Maeotian Tirgatao and, later, a daughter of Satyrus. His subsequent fate is unknown.