Lygdamis I of Halicarnassus

Lygdamis (Greek: Λύγδαμις), who ruled c. 520–484 BCE, was the first tyrant of Caria under the Achaemenid Empire. He was of Carian-Greek ethnicity.^[1] He was the father of Artemisia I of Caria.^[2]

Coinage of Mylasa, Caria, at the time of Lygdamis, c. 520–490 BCE.

He is the founder of the eponymous Lygdamid dynasty (520–450 BCE) of Carian tyrants, who ruled from Halicarnassus.^[3][4]