Psamtik I, the Glossary
Wahibre Psamtik I (Ancient Egyptian) was the first pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, the Saite period, ruling from the city of Sais in the Nile delta between 664–610 BC.[1]
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73 relations: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Libya, Arabs, Ashdod, Ashurbanipal, Šarru-lu-dari, Babylonia, Bahr Yussef, Bethesda, Maryland, Buto, Cairo, Carians, Chaldea, Chris Naunton, Cimmerians, Edom, Elephantine, Esarhaddon, God's Wife of Amun, Grand Egyptian Museum, Gyges of Lydia, Heliopolis (ancient Egypt), Heracleopolis Magna, Herodotus, Histories (Herodotus), Ionians, Kingdom of Judah, Kingdom of Kush, Language deprivation experiments, Late Period of ancient Egypt, Levant, Louvre, Lydia, Marea (ancient city), Medes, Mediterranean Sea, Mehytenweskhet, Memphis, Egypt, Mentuemhat, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nabu, Necho I, Necho II, Neo-Assyrian Empire, Nile Delta, Nitocris I (Divine Adoratrice), Nome (Egypt), Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Pabasa, ... Expand index (23 more) »
- 610 BC
- 7th-century BC pharaohs
- Kings of Egypt in Herodotus
- Pharaohs of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Libya
During the Iron Age and Classical antiquity, Libya (from Greek Λιβύη: Libyē, which came from Berber: Libu) referred to modern-day Africa west of the Nile river.
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Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
Ashdod
Ashdod (ʾašdōḏ,; ʾasdūd,, or label; Philistine:, romanized: *ʾašdūd) is the sixth-largest city in Israel.
Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal (𒀸𒋩𒆕𒀀|translit.
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Šarru-lu-dari
Šarru-lu-dari (Akkadian: 34px), meaning "May the king be everlasting") was a king of Ascalon during the reign of the Neo-Assyrian emperors Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, and Ashurbanipal. His father was named Rukibtu, who ruled Ascalon before Šarru-lu-dari's predecessor, the rebellious king Sidqa.
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Babylonia
Babylonia (𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran).
Bahr Yussef
The Bahr Yussef (بحر يوسف; "the waterway of Joseph") is a canal which connects the Nile River with Faiyum Oasis in Egypt.
Bethesda, Maryland
Bethesda is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
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Buto
Buto (Βουτώ, بوتو, Butu), Bouto, Butus (Βοῦτος, Boutos)Herodotus ii.
Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
Carians
The Carians (Κᾶρες, Kares, plural of Κάρ, Kar) were the ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia, who spoke the Carian language.
Chaldea
Chaldea was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia.
Chris Naunton
Christopher Hugh Naunton is a British Egyptologist, a writer and a broadcaster, and an expert on the life of Flinders Petrie.
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Cimmerians
The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia.
Edom
Edom (Edomite: 𐤀𐤃𐤌; אֱדוֹם, lit.: "red"; Akkadian: 𒌑𒁺𒈪, 𒌑𒁺𒈬; Ancient Egyptian) was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east.
Elephantine
Elephantine (جزيرة الفنتين; Ἐλεφαντίνη Elephantíne) is an island on the Nile, forming part of the city of Aswan in Upper Egypt.
Esarhaddon
Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (𒀭𒊹𒉽𒀸, also 𒀭𒊹𒉽𒋧𒈾, meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sennacherib in 681 BC to his own death in 669.
God's Wife of Amun
God's Wife of Amun (Egyptian: ḥm.t nṯr n ỉmn) was the highest-ranking priestess of the Amun cult, an important religious institution in ancient Egypt.
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Grand Egyptian Museum
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM; al-Matḥaf al-Maṣriyy al-Kabīr), also known as the Giza Museum, is an archaeological museum under construction in Giza, Egypt, about from the Giza pyramid complex.
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Gyges of Lydia
Gyges (Lydian: 𐤨𐤰𐤨𐤠𐤮; 𒁹𒄖𒊌𒄖, 𒁹𒄖𒄖; Gugēs; Gygēs; reigned c. 680-644 BC) was the founder of the Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings and the first known king of the Lydian kingdom to have attempted to transform it into a powerful empire.
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Heliopolis (ancient Egypt)
Heliopolis (Jwnw, Iunu; jwnw, 'the Pillars'; ⲱⲛ; City of the Sun) was a major city of ancient Egypt.
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Heracleopolis Magna
Heracleopolis Magna (Μεγάλη Ἡρακλέους πόλις, Megálē Herakléous pólis), Heracleopolis (Ἡρακλεόπολις, Herakleópolis) or Herakleoupolis (Ἡρακλεούπολις) is the Roman name of the capital of the 20th nome of ancient Upper Egypt, known in Ancient Egyptian as nn nswt.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories (Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature.
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Ionians
The Ionians (Ἴωνες, Íōnes, singular Ἴων, Íōn) were one of the four major tribes that the Greeks considered themselves to be divided into during the ancient period; the other three being the Dorians, Aeolians, and Achaeans.
Kingdom of Judah
The Kingdom of Judah was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
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Kingdom of Kush
The Kingdom of Kush (Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙𓈉 kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXX Χους or Αἰθιοπία; ⲉϭⲱϣ Ecōš; כּוּשׁ Kūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
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Language deprivation experiments
Language deprivation experiments have been claimed to have been attempted at least four times through history, isolating infants from the normal use of spoken or signed language in an attempt to discover the fundamental character of human nature or the origin of language.
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Late Period of ancient Egypt
The Late Period of ancient Egypt refers to the last flowering of native Egyptian rulers after the Third Intermediate Period in the 26th Saite Dynasty founded by Psamtik I, but includes the time of Achaemenid Persian rule over Egypt after the conquest by Cambyses II in 525 BC as well.
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Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Louvre
The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.
Lydia
Lydia (translit; Lȳdia) was an Iron Age historical region in western Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey.
Marea (ancient city)
Marea (Ancient Egyptian:; Ancient Greek: Μαρεη, Μαρεια, Μαρια; Latin: Marea) was an ancient city in Egypt, located 45 km south-west of Alexandria, on the southern shore of Lake Maryut (ancient, Μαρεωτις).
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Medes
The Medes (Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭; Akkadian: 13px, 13px; Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι; Latin: Medi) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the mountainous region of northwestern Iran and the northeastern and eastern region of Mesopotamia in the vicinity of Ecbatana (present-day Hamadan).
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Mehytenweskhet
Mehytenweskhet or Mehtenweskhet was the daughter of the High Priest of Ra Harsiese, and the Great Royal Wife of Psamtik I. She dates to the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt.
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Memphis, Egypt
Memphis (Manf,; Bohairic ⲙⲉⲙϥⲓ; Μέμφις), or Men-nefer, was the ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, the first nome of Lower Egypt that was known as mḥw ("North").
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Mentuemhat
Mentuemhat or Montuemhat (c. 700 BCE – c. 650 BCE) was a rich and powerful Theban official from ancient Egypt who lived during the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.
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Nabu
Nabu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabû, Nəḇo) is the Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom.
Necho I
Menkheperre Necho I (Egyptian: Nekau, Greek: Νεχώς Α' or Νεχώ Α', Akkadian: Nikuu or Nikû) (? – near Memphis) was a ruler of the ancient Egyptian city of Sais. Psamtik I and Necho I are 7th-century BC pharaohs and pharaohs of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt.
Necho II
Necho II (sometimes Nekau, Neku, Nechoh, or Nikuu; Greek: Νεκώς Β') of Egypt was a king of the 26th Dynasty (610–595 BC), which ruled from Sais. Psamtik I and Necho II are 7th-century BC pharaohs and pharaohs of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history.
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Nile Delta
The Nile Delta (دلتا النيل, or simply الدلتا) is the delta formed in Lower Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea.
Nitocris I (Divine Adoratrice)
Nitocris I (alt. Nitiqret, Nitokris I) (died 585 BC) served as the heir to, and then, as the Divine Adoratrice of Amun or God's Wife of Amun for a period of more than seventy years, between 655 BC and 585 BC.
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Nome (Egypt)
A nome (from νομός, nomós, "district") was a territorial division in ancient Egypt.
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Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus
The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, or Oracc, is an ongoing project designed to make the corpus of cuneiform compositions from the ancient Near East available online and accessible to users.
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Pabasa
The ancient Egyptian noble Pabasa was chief steward of the God's Wife of Amun Nitocris I during the Saite Period.
Phrygian language
The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, spoken in Anatolia (modern Turkey), during classical antiquity (c. 8th century BCE to 5th century CE).
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Phrygians
The Phrygians (Greek: Φρύγες, Phruges or Phryges) were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) in antiquity.
Piye
Piye (once transliterated as Pankhy or Piankhi; d. 714 BC) was an ancient Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled Egypt from 744–714 BC.
Quartzite
Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.
Ra
Ra (rꜥ; also transliterated,; cuneiform: ri-a or ri-ia; Phoenician: 𐤓𐤏,CIS I 3778 romanized: rʿ) or Re (translit) was the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun.
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Sack of Thebes
The sack of Thebes took place in 663 BC in the city of Thebes at the hands of the Neo-Assyrian Empire under king Ashurbanipal, then at war with the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt under Tantamani, during the Assyrian conquest of Egypt.
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Saft el-Hinna
Saft el-Hinna (translit), also written as Saft el-Hinneh, Saft el-Henna, Saft el-Henneh, is a village and an archaeological site in Egypt.
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Sais, Egypt
Sais (Σάϊς, Ⲥⲁⲓ) was an ancient Egyptian city in the Western Nile Delta on the Canopic branch of the Nile,Mish, Frederick C., Editor in Chief.
Scythians
The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.
Shepenupet II
Shepenupet II (alt. Shepenwepet II, prenomen: Henutneferumut Irietre) was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 25th Dynasty who served as the high priestess, the Divine Adoratrice of Amun, from around 700 BC to 650 BC.
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Sinai Peninsula
The Sinai Peninsula, or simply Sinai (سِينَاء; سينا; Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), is a peninsula in Egypt, and the only part of the country located in Asia.
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Sinsharishkun
Sîn-šar-iškun (𒁹𒀭𒌍𒌋𒌋𒃻𒌦|translit.
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Tahpanhes
Tahpanhes or Tehaphnehes (translit or translit) known by the Ancient Greeks as the (Pelusian) Daphnae (Δάφναι αἱ Πηλούσιαι) and Taphnas (Ταφνας) in the Septuagint, now Tell Defenneh, was a city in ancient Egypt.
Tantamani
Tantamani (tnwt-jmn, Neo-Assyrian:, Τεμένθης), also known as Tanutamun or Tanwetamani (d. 653 BC) was ruler of the Kingdom of Kush located in Northern Sudan, and the last pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Psamtik I and Tantamani are 7th-century BC pharaohs.
Thebes, Egypt
Thebes (طيبة, Θῆβαι, Thēbai), known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset (Arabic: وسط), was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about south of the Mediterranean.
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Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25), also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, was the last dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt that occurred after the Kushite invasion.
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Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXVI, alternatively 26th Dynasty or Dynasty 26) was the last native dynasty of ancient Egypt before the Persian conquest in 525 BC (although other brief periods of rule by Egyptians followed).
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt (صعيد مصر, shortened to الصعيد,, locally) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel N. It thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser (formed by the Aswan High Dam).
Via Maris
Via Maris is one modern name for an ancient trade route, dating from the early Bronze Age, linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia — along the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Egypt, Israel, Turkey and Syria.
Vizier (Ancient Egypt)
The vizier was the highest official in ancient Egypt to serve the pharaoh (king) during the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.
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Wadjet
Wadjet (wꜢḏyt "Green One"), known to the Greek world as Uto (Οὐτώ) or Buto (Βουτώ) among other renderings including Wedjat, Uadjet, and Udjo, was originally the ancient Egyptian local goddess of the city of Dep or Buto in Lower Egypt, which was an important site in prehistoric Egypt.
See also
610 BC
- 610 BC
- Fall of Harran
- Psamtik I
7th-century BC pharaohs
- Ammeris
- Gemenefkhonsbak
- Necho I
- Necho II
- Neferkare (Tanis)
- Nekauba
- Penamun
- Psamtik I
- Shabaka
- Taharqa
- Tantamani
- Tefnakht II
Kings of Egypt in Herodotus
Pharaohs of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psamtik_I
Also known as Psamik I, Psammetichus I, Psammeticus I, Psammitichus I.
, Phrygian language, Phrygians, Piye, Quartzite, Ra, Sack of Thebes, Saft el-Hinna, Sais, Egypt, Scythians, Shepenupet II, Sinai Peninsula, Sinsharishkun, Tahpanhes, Tantamani, Thebes, Egypt, Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, University of Chicago Press, University of Pennsylvania, Upper Egypt, Via Maris, Vizier (Ancient Egypt), Wadjet.