Bartatua or Protothyes was a Scythian king who ruled during the period of the Scythian presence in Western Asia in the 7th century BCE. The Akkadian name...

eventual fate is unknown; she may have been married to the Scythian king Bartatua and have become the mother of his successor Madyes; a later Aramaic story...

with Assyria, and Šērūʾa-ēṭirat was likely the mother of Bartatua's son Madyes. Bartatua's marriage to Šērūʾa-ēṭirat required that he would pledge allegiance...

Išpakāya. Išpakāya was succeeded by Bartatua, who might have been his son and who formed an alliance with Assyria. Bartatua's son, and therefore Išpakāya's...

eventually brought to an end when the Scythian King Bartatua married Assyrian princess Šērūʾa-ēṭirat. Bartatua's marriage to Šērūʾa-ēṭirat required that he would...

West Asia in the 7th century BCE. Madyes was the son of the Scythian king Bartatua and the Assyrian princess Šērūʾa-ēṭirat, and, as an ally of the Neo-Assyrian...

attacked by a large Scythian army under the command of Madyes, son of Bartatua. A battle ensued, in which the Medes were defeated, losing their power...

during this campaign, and he was succeeded as king of the Scythians by Bartatua, with whom Esarhaddon might have immediately initiated negotiations. At...

same individual as the Scythian king Pṛtatavah, whose name is attested as Bartatua in Assyrian records and as Protothyēs in Greek records. However, the hieoglyphic...

According to Tadeusz Sulimirski, this burial belonged to the Scythian king Bartatua, and was the first West Asian-influenced Scythian burial whose model would...