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{{Short description|5th-century BC dynast of Lycia, ruler of Xanthos}}

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| allegiance = Achaemenid Empirefloruit>fl. 410 â€“ 390 BC| branch = | rank = Dynast of Lycia| rank_label =| commands = | battles_label = | battles = | spouse = | children = | relations =}}File:Map of Lycia.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Location of Lycia. Anatolia/Asia MinorAsia MinorKherei (circa 433-410 BC, or circa 410-390 BC) was dynast of Lycia, ruler of the area of Xanthos, at a time when this part of Anatolia was subject to the Persian, or Achaemenid, Empire.BOOK, Anderson, John Kinloch, Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon, 1970, University of California Press, 9780520015647, 33,weblink en, Present-day knowledge of Lycia in the period of classical antiquity comes mostly from archaeology, in which this region is unusually rich.D. T. Potts, A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (2012), p. 912: "...c. 380–370 BC, two western Lycian dynasts named Arttumpara and Mithrapata claimed power simultaneously." He may have been the dynast to whom was dedicated the Xanthian Obelisk, where he is mentioned in multiple places, although this could more probably be his predecessor Kheriga (Xeriga, Gergis in Greek).BOOK, Keen, Antony G., Dynastic Lycia: A Political of History of the Lycians and Their Relations with Foreign Powers : C. 545-362 B.C., 1998, BRILL, 9004109560, 130,weblink en, Kherei may have been Kheriga's brother, and succeeded him.

Coinage

Kherei was among last the Lycian rulers to issue coinage. After 360 BC, the region of Lycia was taken over by the Carian dynast Mausolus.BOOK, CNG: DYNASTS of LYCIA. Mithrapata. Circa 390-370 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 9.73 g, 5h).,weblink The portrait on the coins of Kherei show the dynast wearing the Achaemenid satrapal headdress.BOOK, CNG: DYNASTS of LYCIA. Mithrapata. Circa 390-370 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 9.73 g, 5h).,weblink File:DYNASTS of LYCIA. Kherei. Circa 410-390 BC.jpg|Coinage of Kherei. Circa 410-390 BC. Obv: Helmeted head of Athena. Rev: Head of Kherei, wearing Persian tiara decorated with laurel branch.File:DYNASTS_of_LYCIA._Kherei._Circa_440-30-410_BC.jpg|Coinage of Kherei. Circa 410-390 BC

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Further reading

• JOURNAL, Lotz, Helmut, Xerei, der Errichter des Inschriftenpfeilers von Xanthos, Kadmos, 2017, 56, 1–2, 139–172, 10.1515/kadmos-2017-0007, 165480090, German,

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