Kybernis or Kubernis (ruled 520-480 BCE), also abbreviated KUB on his coins in
Lycian, called Cyberniscus son of Sicas by
Herodotus, was a dynast of
Lycia, at the beginning of the time it was under the domination of the
Achaemenid Empire.[1] He is best known through his tomb, the
Harpy Tomb, the decorative remains of which are now in the
British Museum.[1] According to Melanie Michailidis, though bearing a "Greek appearance", the Harpy Tomb, the
Nereid Monument and the
Tomb of Payava were built according main
Zoroastrian criteria "by being composed of thick stone, raised on plinths off the ground, and having single windowless chambers".[2]
Kybernis is known from
Herodotus (Hdt. 7.92, 98) to have served under
Xerxes I during the
Persian invasion of Greece circa 480 BCE. He came with 50 ships. His men were equipped with cuirasses, felt caps with feathers, and capes made of goat-skin.[3]
The Lycians furnished fifty ships; they wore cuirasses and greaves, carrying bows of cornel-wood and unfeathered arrows and javelins; goat-skins hung from their shoulders, and they wore on their heads caps set about with feathers; daggers they had too, and scimitars. The Lycians were of Cretan descent, and were once called Termilae; they took the name they bear from Lycus, an Athenian, son of Pandion.
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Of those that were on shipboard [was]...Cyberniscus of Lycia, son of Sicas...
Michailidis, Melanie (2009). "Empty Graves: The Tomb Towers of Northern Iran". In Gacek, Tomasz; Pstrusińska, Jadwiga (eds.). Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
ISBN978-1443815024.