 Cambyses II was old enough to be prince regent when his father entered Babylon.If Cassandane had died at this time, it would shed light on the passage in the "Cyropaedia" (8.5.19) where Cyaxares II, maternal uncle of Cyrus, gave his daughter as bride to the recently bereaved Cyrus, with the kingdom of Media as her dowry.The death of the king's wife in the Nabonidus Chronicle would then explain why Cyrus would take a new queen in his middle years, as stated in the "Cyropaedia".