Neferkare (Tanis)
| Neferkare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
King of Tanis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 8-9 years, c. 655 – 657/6 BCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Sehetepibenre Pedubast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | office abolished | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Neferkare was an
26th Dynasty
.
Biography
He was possibly the successor of the better known king Sehetepibenre Pedubast, and should have succeeded him in around 665 BCE, just one year before Psamtik I of the 26th Dynasty proclaimed himself pharaoh.
His existence was proposed by the French
Isheru", whose cult is typical of a more recent epoch. Furthermore, a cornice from Athribis bears both the cartouches of a Neferkare and a Wahibre; the latter likely is Psamtik I while the former could be this Tanite ruler.[2]
: 357 n.904
Based upon these findings, it is likely that Psamtik, once he became pharaoh, could no longer tolerate the multitude of rulers with claims of kingship upon the
22nd Dynasty) – was likely the last of them, but like all others he was finally subdued around 657–656 BCE.[2]: 361 [3]
References
- ^ Montet, Le lac sacré de Tanis, in Mémoires de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres XLIV (1956), Paris, pp. 73-5.
- ^ ISBN 0-85668-298-5.
- ISBN 978 1 4088 1002 6, p. 437.
Further reading
- Frederic Payraudeau, "La situation politique de Tanis sous la XXVe dynastie" in P. Kousoulis & N. Lazaridis (eds), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008 (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 241), Louvain, 2015, pp: 849–860. ISBN 978-90-429-2550-2