Artazostre (Old Persian *Arta-zausri) was a Persian

Achaemenid Empire

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 princess, daughter of king Darius the Great (521 BC-485 BC

485 BC

Year 485 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cornelius and Vibulanus...

) by Artystone

Artystone

Artystone was a Persian princess, daughter of king Cyrus the Great, and sister or half-sister of Atossa and Cambyses II. Along with Atossa and her niece Parmys, Artystone married king Darius I...

, daughter of Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great

Cyrus II of Persia , commonly known as Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Southwest Asia and much...

.

According to the Greek

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 historian Herodotus

Herodotus

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 (VI, 43) Artazostre was given in marriage to Mardonius

Mardonius

Mardonius was a leading Persian military commander during the Persian Wars with Greece in the early 5th century BC.-Early years:Mardonius was the son of Gobryas, a Persian nobleman who had assisted the Achaemenid prince Darius when he claimed the throne...

, young son of the noble Gobryas, not much before he took the command of the Persian army in Thrace

Thrace

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 and Macedon

Macedon

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 (c. 493

493 BC

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/492 BC

492 BC

Year 492 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Macerinus and Augurinus...

).

Artazostre seems not to be mentioned by name in the Persepolis Fortification Tablets (administrative documents found at Persepolis

Persepolis

Perspolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire . Persepolis is situated northeast of the modern city of Shiraz in the Fars Province of modern Iran. In contemporary Persian, the site is known as Takht-e Jamshid...

), but there are references (in tablets

Clay tablet

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 dated on the year 498 BC

498 BC

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) to a "wife of Mardonius, daughter of the king", who received rations for a trip she made with Gobryas and a woman called Radušnamuya or Ardušnamuya, perhaps Gobryas' wife . However, another interpretation of the text suggests that Ardušnamuya was actually the anonymous "wife of Mardonius"

Mardonius had a son, probably by Artazostre, named Artontes.