A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British MuseumBritish Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
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A guide to the Egyptian collections in the British Museum
British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
Egypt -- Antiquities
In the reign of =Artaxerxes I= another revolt, headed by =Inarôs=, a
Libyan, who was assisted by the Athenians, broke out, and at the battle
of Papremis, the satrap of Egypt, =Akhaemenes=, was killed and his forces
defeated. Subsequently the Persians defeated the Egyptians, and =Inarôs=
was captured and taken to Persia, where a few years later he was impaled
and flayed alive.
[Sidenote: B.C. 424.]
=Darius II, Nothus=, repaired the temple of Ȧmen-Rā at Al-Khârgah,
and added his name to its walls. In his reign the Egyptians at length
succeeded in throwing off the Persian yoke. Their leader, =Amyrtaios=,
has been thought to be Ȧmen-ruṭ-meri-Ȧmen.
Twenty-Eighth Dynasty. From Saïs.
B.C. 420 (?).
According to the King List of Manetho the XXVIIIth dynasty consisted of
one king, who was named =Amyrtaios=; Julius Africanus and the Syncellus
state that he reigned six years, and make Saïs the seat of his rule.
At one time authorities identified Amyrtaios with the king =Ȧmen-ruṭ=,
whose name 𓊹𓄤𓍹𓇳𓄊𓌷𓏏𓇋𓏠𓈖𓍉𓈖𓍺𓎟𓇾𓇾𓍹𓇋𓏠𓈖𓌗𓇋𓏠𓈖𓌻𓍺 is found on a plank
from a coffin preserved at Berlin. The form of the prenomen, however,
proves that Ȧmen-ruṭ lived at a period anterior to Amyrtaios, and the
identification must, therefore, be abandoned.
Twenty-Ninth Dynasty. From Mendes.
B.C. 399.
Of the five kings of this dynasty only three appear to have left remains,
viz. =Naifaauruṭ= (Nepherites), =Haḳer= (Achoris), and =Psamut=; their
reigns were unimportant, their total length being only about twenty-one
years.
Thirtieth Dynasty. From Sebennytus.
B.C. 378.
[Sidenote: B.C. 378.]
=Nekht-Ḥeru-ḥebt=, the Nektanebês and Nektanebus I of classical writers,
succeeded in overthrowing the dynasty of Mendes, and made himself king of
all Egypt, which he ruled with success for a period of eighteen years. He
repaired several of the temples of Memphis and Thebes, and the temple of
Darius I at Al-Khârgah, and revived the custom of setting up obelisks. He
also founded the temple of Horus at Ḥebt, the modern Behbît-al-Ḥagârah.
During his prosperous reign more attention was given to the performance
of ceremonies connected with the dead, and, as a result, a considerable
number of statues, stelae, etc., which may be attributed to his reign
have come down to us.
[Illustration: PLATE XLVI.
Obelisk dedicated to Thoth by King Ḥeru-nekht-ḥebt, B.C. 378.
XXXth dynasty.
[Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 31, No. 919.]]
[Illustration: PLATE XLVII.
Scenes and texts from the Second Section of the Book of What is in the
Other World. From the sarcophagus of King Nekht-Ḥeru-ḥebt, B.C. 378.
[Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 25, No. 923.]]
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