Necho I in hieroglyphs
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Necho I (672 BC–664 BC) was governor of the Egyptian city of Sais. His rule lasted 8 Years according to Manetho as a local Saite king of the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt. Egypt was reunified by his son, Psamtik I. Necho is primarily attested to in Assyrian documents but now also in a one contemporary native Egyptian document from his reign. He was "installed" as ruler by Assurbanipal around 664 BC, but he already ruled Egypt prior this event. According to historical records, he was killed by an invading Kushite force in 664 BC under Tantamani. The Nubian invasion was repelled by the Assyrians who proceeded to advance south into Upper Egypt and sack Thebes. Hieroglyphs on an Egyptian funerary stela Hieroglyphs at the Memphis museum with Ramses II statue on the back. ... copied from http://fi. ... copied from http://fi. ... copied from http://fi. ... copied from http://fi. ... Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 720s BC 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC - 670s BC - 660s BC 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC 620s BC Events and Trends 677 BC - Death of Zhou li wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China. ... Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC - 660s BC - 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC 620s BC 610s BC Events and Trends 668 BC - Egypt revolts against Assyria 668 BC - Assurbanipal succeeds Esarhaddon as king of... A governor is also a device that regulates the speed of a machine. ... Sais was the chief city of the fifth nome of Lower Egypt, located in the western edge of the Nile Delta. ... Manetho or Manethon of Sebennytos, (ca. ... The Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt was the last native dynasty to rule Egypt before the Persian conquest, and had its capital was Sais. ... Psammetichus, or Psamtik I, was the first of three kings of the Saite, or Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt (664 - 610 BC). ... Assyria in earliest historical times referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the city of Ashur. ... Assurbanipal in a relief from the north palace at Nineveh There were several Assyrian kings named Assur-bani-pal, also spelled Asurbanipal, Assurbanipal (most commonly), Ashurbanipal and Ashshurbanipal, but the best known was Assurbanipal IV.  Ashurbanipal, or Assurbanipal, (reigned 668 - 627 BCE), the son of Esarhaddon and Naqia-Zakutu... Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 710s BC 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC - 660s BC - 650s BC 640s BC 630s BC 620s BC 610s BC Events and Trends 668 BC - Egypt revolts against Assyria 668 BC - Assurbanipal succeeds Esarhaddon as king of... For the son of Rama and Sita from Indian epic of Ramayana, go to Kush (hindu). ... Tanutamani (died 653 BC) was king of Egypt (664 BC to 656 BC), and a member of the Nubian or 25th dynasty. ...

Necho I's Year 2 is now attested on a donation stela from a private collection that was first discovered and published by Olivier Perdu in a 2002 issue of CRAIBL or 'Compte-rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris.' The stela records a large land donation to the Osirian triad of PerHebyt (modern Behbeit el-Hagar near Sebennytos) by the "priest of Isis, Mistress of Hebyt, Great Chief...son of Iuput, Akanosh." The stela is very similiar in style, content and epigraphy with the Year 8 stela of Shepsesre Tefnakht. This suggests that Shepsesre Tefnakht was Tefnakht II who was different from the famous Great Chief of the West Tefnakhte who opposed Piye. Shepsesre would hence have been a relatively recent predecessor of Necho I, as Manetho records. Perdu convincingly argues that the kings Stephinates and Nekauba or Nechepso in Manetho's Epitome belong to the start of the 26th Dynasty. Tefnakht II was king Shepsesre Tefnakht who is attested by a Year 8 donation stela, according to both a Karl-Heinz Priese who aptly noted 3 decades ago that there was no particular reason to identify this king with the more famous Tefnakhte, Piyes rival and, more significantly, by... Tefnakht I or Tefnakhte (in Greek known as Tnephachthos), was a Libyan-descended king and founder of the relatively short Twenty-fourth dynasty of Egypt. ...

External references

• Olivier Perdu, "De Stéphinatès à Néchao ou les débuts de la XXVIe dynastie"(From Tefnakht II to Necho and the start of the 26th Dynasty), CRAIBL 2002, pp. 1215-1244