King of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus despatched an expedition that circumnavigated Africa, and he was the king who started the construction of a canal from the Nile to the Red Sea, completed by the Achaemenid king Darius I.
Horus name: Maaib Nebty name: Maakheru Golden Falcon name: Merynetjeru Prenomen: Wehemibre Nomen: Nekau |
Burial place: Not located (Sais?)
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Attestations in the Petrie Museum:
UC 38081 said to be from Memphis (click on the image
to see a larger picture)
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UC 16130
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Further Attestations:
shabti of his wife Khedebarbenet, mother of Psamtek II. The shabti is thought to come from Sais (click on the picture to see a larger image) |
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