"Portrait of an Achaemenid Satrap of Asia Minor" by artist Arkady Aleksandrovich Rylov (1870 - 1939). What was an Achaemenid Satrap? the first word, Archaemenid, refers to being 'of the empire of the Medes and Persians, and a satrap was the govenor of the province, particularly a province in said Mede or Persian empire.













