Nekauba
Nekauba | |
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Nechepsos | |
Pharaoh | |
Reign | 678 – 672 BC |
Predecessor | Tefnakht II? |
Successor | Necho I |
Father | Tefnakht II? |
Dynasty | " Proto-saite" Dynasty |
Almost nothing is known of Nekauba (
The Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen has suggested[2] that Nekauba's reign be raised by a decade from six to 16 years, though this seems somewhat ambitious for such an obscure ruler. It appears far more economical to adopt – at face value – Manetho's far shorter figure of only six years. This may suggest that only a small amount of time passed between the reign of Tefnakht II and the accession of Necho I.
It is probable that Nekauba and Necho I were both sons of Tefnakht II.
Doubtful existence
In 2002,
In 2011, Kim Ryholt[4] assumed that Nekauba's name translates as "Necho the Wise" and that Nekauba or Nechepsos' name refers to Necho II instead. Ryholt maintained that there was no independent Saite king named Nekauba who intervened between Tefnakht II and Necho I. Ryholt also stressed that possible evidence for the removal of an intervening king between Tefnakht II and Necho I was provided by Perdu's aforementioned argument concerning the similarity of the two stelae (although Ryholt attributed the Year 8 stela to Tefnakht II instead); the attribution of 6 years to Nekauba would separate the two stela by a minimum of seven years whereas if Nekauba did not exist, the two stela might have been produced within one to two years since Necho I would have been Tefnakht II's immediate successor.[5]
References
- ^ Karl-Heinz Priese, "Der Beginn der Kuschitischen Herrschaft in Ägypten," ZÄS 98 (1970), pp. 16–32
- ISBN 0-85668-298-5, §§ 117-18.
- ^ Olivier Perdu, "De Stéphinatès à Néchao ou les débuts de la XXVIe dynastie," Compte-rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (CRAIBL) 2002, pp. 1215–1244
- ^ Kim Ryholt, "New Light on the Legendary King Nechepsos of Egypt", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 97 (2011), pp. 61-72 online PDF
- ^ Ryholt, op. cit., p. 66