Psammetichus IV
| Psammetichus IV | |||||||||||
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| Psamtik IV | |||||||||||
Darius I | |||||||||||
| Successor | uncertain, possibly Xerxes I | ||||||||||
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| Children | 27th Dynasty[1] | ||||||||||
Psammetichus IV or Psamtik IV is a proposed ancient Egyptian ruler who lived during the First Persian Period (the 27th Dynasty).
Attestations
There are several artifacts, as well as Greek sources, supporting the existence of an Egyptian ruler with this name during the Persian period. The archaeological findings bearing this name consists in a
Diospolis Parva (papyrus Straßburg 2), dating to a regnal year 2, while Greek authors give several times the name of this ruler.[2]
However, the difference of both dating and naming of these attestations makes their attributions to an individual ruler virtually impossible.
Identification
In 1980, the American
28th Dynasty who ruled from 404 to 399 BCE.[2]
See also
- Petubastis III – another Egyptian rebel ruler during the First Persian Period.
References
- ^ Placed in this dynasty only for chronological reasons, as he was not related to the Achaemenids.
- ^ a b c d Anthony Spalinger, Psammetichus IV; Psammetichus V; Psammetichus VI in Lexikon der Ägyptologie 4 (1982), pp. 1173–75.
- ^ Eugène Cruz-Uribe, "On the Existence of Psammetichus IV". Serapis. American Journal of Egyptology 5 (1980), pp. 35–39.
- ISBN 978 90 04 11385 5, p. 282
Further reading
- Pieter Willem Pestman, The Diospolis Parva Documents. Chronological Problems concerning Psammetichus III and IV. in Heinz-Josef Thissen, Karl-Theodor Zauzich (eds.), Grammata Demotika. Festschrift für Erich Lüddeckens zum 15. Juni 1983. 1984, pp. 145–55.
- Thomas Schneider, Lexikon der Pharaonen. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3, pp. 202–03.
- Sven P. Vleeming, "The Gooseherds of Hou (Pap. Hou). A Dossier relating to Various Agricultural Affairs from Provincial Egypt of the Early Fifth Century B. C." Leuven 1991 (Studia Demotica 3), pp. 3–4.