Pinches, considers both the names Ugbaru and Gubaru found in the latter to be references to this Gobryas.

Ugbaru remains a candidate for Gobryas being described as the ruler of the region of Gutium dying soon after the conquest of Babylon similarly to Xenophon's portrayel of Gobryas as an elderly " Assyrian " ruler.

Cyrus did not arrive until the 3rd of Marchesvan ( October ), Gobryas having acted for him in his absence.

The conqueror of Babylon was Gobryas, governor of Gutium, a general of Cyrus, king of Persia.

Gobryas was now made governor of the province of Babylon, and a few days afterwards the son of Nabonidus died.

In October, Cyrus himself arrived, and proclaimed a general amnesty, which was communicated by Gobryas to " all the province of Babylon ," of which he had been made governor.

Nabonidus fled to Babylon, where he was pursued by Gobryas, and on the 16th day of Tammuz, two days after the capture of Sippar, " the soldiers of Cyrus entered Babylon without fighting.

Mardonius was the son of Gobryas, a Persian nobleman who had assisted the Achaemenid prince Darius when he claimed the throne.

The alliance between the new king and his friend was cemented by diplomatic marriages: Darius married Gobryas ' daughter, and Gobryas married Darius ' sister.

Gobryas ( old Persian: Gaubaruva " beef-eater ", Elamite: Kambarma ) was a common name of several Persian noblemen.

A daughter of Gobryas, from an earlier marriage, was married to Darius.

This Gobryas is mentioned in the Cyropedia of Xenophon as a general who helped in the conquering of Babylon.

However the names are distinct in the text and refer to two different individuals, the one called Gubaru being the ruler placed over Babylon thus corresponding to Cyaxares of the Cyropedia ( and the Darius the Mede of the Bible ) not Gobryas.

Darius, who had served Cambyses as his lance-bearer until the deposed ruler's death, prayed for aid and in September 522 BCE, along with Otanes, Intraphrenes, Gobryas, Hydarnes, Megabyxus and Aspathines, killed Gaumata in the fortress of Sikayauvati.

He also married Artystone, another daughter of Cyrus, with whom he had two sons, Arsames and Gobryas.

The English form Gobryas is derived from the Greek rendering of this name.

Gobryas married to the sister of Darius, Artazostre or Radušdukda.

In the meantime, Ugbaru, the commander of the Persian forces that had captured Babylon, had taken good care that his men would not plunder or otherwise harm the city.

Complicating this view is the question of whether or not Gubaru and Ugbaru are two different people, or simply variant spellings of the same name.

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