Sisamnès
Sisamnès was one of the royal judges of the Persian Empire under the reign of Cambyse II condemned by this one for breach.
Indeed, Sisamnès judge had misused his capacity while agreeing to deliver a sentence iniquitous for a certain amount of money. Hérodote tells that large Persian king Cambyse made it skin sharp to punish it his corrupt practice. This torment whose principle emanated from the imagination of the large king, that to dispossess the torture victim of his cutaneous envelope and this on all the surface of its body, has as a name the Jugement of Cambyse ; the Diptyque éponyme of the Flemish painter Gerard David represents the arrest of Sisamnès as well as the scene of torture which one could think " anthropophagique" , the whole of these two tables of the Renaissance is visible with the Musée Groeninge of Bruges.
According to Hérodote, Cambyse ordered that one cuts out bands of skin of unhappy and that one tightens them on the seat of the judge. Once the covered seat, Cambyse designated the son of Sisamnès, Otanès to succeed his/her father while ordering to him to remember on which seat he had sat when he returned justice…
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