INARUS

'Ienheru' or 'Inarus', also known as 'Inaros', (c.460 BC) was an Egyptian rebel ruler who was the son of a Libyan prince named Psametik, presumably of the old Saite line.
He held a kingship over the Libyans from Mareia (above Pharos) and the part of the Nile Delta around Sais. With help from Amyrtaeus, also from Sais, who took the northern marshes, Inarus drove out the tax-collectors and collected mercenaries, thus starting a revolt in Egypt during the reign of King Artaxerxes I of Persia after the assassination of king Xerxes I. The Athenian allies from whom he was paid 100 triers, sent troops and an army of more than 200 ships led by Charitimides to aid him in 460 BC. The rebel army had confronted the Persian army of around 400,000 infantry and eighty ships led by the brother of Artaxerxes, the satrap Achaemenides. The satrap Achaemenides, together with 100,000 of his 400,000 men was defeated and killed at Pampremis and the Persians retreated to Memphis. Twenty out of fifty Persian ships were captured with their crews, and the remaining thirty sunk. The dead body of Achaemenides was sent to Artaxerxes and Inarus was also victorious at sea.
But the victory was short lived. Soon the Athenians were defeated in 454 BC. by the Persian army led by the Syrian satrap Megabazos, who had arrived with a strong Phoenician fleet and an army which numbered about 500,000. Megabyzus had managed to isolate the Athenians on an island called Prosoptis. The satrap attacked on June 454, when the Nile was low and the Athenians could not use their ships and they soon left their allies and went to Cyrene, so the Egyptians were easily defeated. Charitimides was killed and Inarus was wounded in the thigh by the Persian force and retreated to Byblus, his stronghold and the only Egyptian city that did not submit to Megabyzus. After fighting for a year and a half in the marshes, Inarus, together with the Greeks, were taken captive away to Susa after being defeated by Megabyzus.
Artaxerxes I promised him safe conduct to Persia and assured him that he would not be executed. Artaxerxes I honored this promise for some five years but eventually (according to the Greek historian Ctesias of Cnidus), at the pleading of the Queen Mother Amestris, who was unhappy because Megabyzus had not punished them and because they had been the collaborators of the man who had killed her son Achaemenes, he had Inarus impaled on three stakes (crucified) and fifty Greeks beheaded in 454 BC. Megabyzus was so upset at the king's perfidy that he then raised a revolt in Syria.