Nakhthorhebyt (Nectanebo II)

Nakhthorhebyt (Greek Nectanebo II) (360 - 343 BC)

Last king of the Thirtieth Dynasty and last independent native ruler of all Egypt in antiquity. At the end of his reign Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Artaxerxes III. According to one Greek tradition the king fled to the Macedonian court; another tradition reports that he fled to Nubia.

Horus name: Merytawy
Nebty name: Seheruibnetjeru
Golden Falcon name: Semenhepu
Prenomen: Senedjemibre
Nomen: Nakhthorhebyt

Burial place: Saqqara ? (Arnold 1999: 130)

Attestation in the Petrie Museum:

UC 8961: fragment of a shabti (click on the image for a larger picture)

Further Attestations:

Inscription found at Elephantine (Junge 1987: 72)
Khnum temple at Elephantine (Niederberg 1999 - the architecture; Jenni 1998 - the decoration)
Building work at the temple at Edfu (Arnold 1999: 133)
Small temple at Armant (Arnold 1999: 132)
Construction works at Karnak (Arnold 1999: 131-132)
Koptos: chapel for Geb and Isis (Arnold 1999: 131)
Fragments of statue and inscription fragments found at Hermopolis (Spencer 1989: 46, 50)
Naos for the god Heryshef at Herakleopolis Magna (Arnold 1999: 131)
Further work at Hermopolis Magna (Arnold 1999: 131)
Iseum at Behbeit el-Hagar (Arnold 1999: 125-127)
New enclosure for the temple at Tanis (Arnold 1999: 129)
Bubastis, new temple for Bastet (Arnold 1999: 129)
Enlargement of the Atum and Re-Harakhty temple at Pithum (Arnold 1999: 130)
Onuris temple at Sebennytos (Arnold 1999: 127-128)
Obelisks at the temple of Hibis at el-Kharga (Arnold 1999: 134)
Sarcophagus, found in the Attarin Mosque at Alexandria now in the British Museum (Jenni 1986)

Bibliography:

Kienitz 1953: 214-230 (collection of sources)
de Meulenaere 1965 (on the family of the king)
Petrie 1905: 378-384 (list of sources then known)