Editing Lydia (section)

=====Ardys and Sadyattes=====
{{main|Ardys of Lydia|Sadyattes}}
Gyges was succeeded by his son [[Ardys of Lydia|Ardys]], who resumed diplomatic activity with Assyria and would also have to face the Cimmerians.<ref name="Spalinger1976"/><ref name="Spalinger1978"/> Ardys attacked the [[Ionians|Ionian]] Greek city of [[Miletus]] and succeeded in capturing the city of [[Priene]], after which Priene would remain under direct rule of the Lydian kingdom until its end.<ref>'Miletos, the ornament of Ionia: history of the city to 400 BC' by Vanessa B. Gorman (University of Michigan Press) 2001</ref><ref name="Leloux-1">{{cite thesis |last=Leloux |first=Kevin |date=2018 |title=La Lydie d'Alyatte et Crésus: Un royaume à la croisée des cités grecques et des monarchies orientales. Recherches sur son organisation interne et sa politique extérieure |type=PhD |volume=1 |publisher=[[University of Liège]] |docket= |oclc= |url=https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/220928/1/The%CC%80se%20entie%CC%80re%20vol%20I.pdf |access-date=5 December 2021 |archive-date=9 October 2022 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/220928/1/The%CC%80se%20entie%CC%80re%20vol%20I.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Ardys's reign was short-lived,<ref name="Dale">{{cite journal |last=Dale |first=Alexander |date=2015 |title=WALWET and KUKALIM: Lydian coin legends, dynastic succession, and the chronology of Mermnad kings |url=https://www.academia.edu/29719834 |journal=Kadmos |volume=54 |issue= |pages=151–166 |doi=10.1515/kadmos-2015-0008 |s2cid=165043567 |access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref> and in 637 BC, that is in Ardys's seventh regnal year, the [[Thracians|Thracian]] [[Treri|Treres]] tribe who had migrated across the [[Bosporus|Thracian Bosporus]] and invaded [[Anatolia]],{{sfn|Diakonoff|1985|p=94-55}} under their king Kobos, and in alliance with the [[Cimmerians]] and the [[Lycians]], attacked Lydia.<ref name="Spalinger1978"/> They defeated the Lydians again and for a second time sacked the Lydian capital of [[Sardis]], except for its citadel. It is probable that Ardys was killed during this Cimmerian attack.<ref name="Dale"/><ref>{{cite book | last=Kristensen | first=Anne Katrine Gade | title=Who were the Cimmerians, and where did they come from?: Sargon II, and the Cimmerians, and Rusa I | year=1988 | publisher=The Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters | location=Copenhagen Denmark}}</ref>

Ardys was succeeded by his son, Sadyattes, who had an even more short-lived reign.<ref name="Dale"/> Sadyattes died in 635 BC, and it is possible that, like his grandfather Gyges and maybe his father Ardys as well, he died fighting the [[Cimmerians]].<ref name="Dale"/>