 Tugdamme would eventually be defeated around 641-640 BCE, but it remains unknown as to who defeated and killed him.The historian Strabo suggest that Madys killed Tugdamme and defeated his forces.Ashurbanipal says Marduk defeated Tugdamme, which may suggest that an outside element had defeated Tugdamme and not the Assyrians; this outside element may have been Madys.