Khabash
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Khabash, also Khababash or Chababash, resided at Sais in the fifth nome of Lower Egypt in the fourth century BC. During the second Persian occupation of Egypt (343-332 BC) he led a revolt against the Persian rule in concert with his eldest son, from ca. 338 to 335 BC [1], a few years before the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great.
Little is known about him. He is referred to as "Lord of both lands" [2], i.e. King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and as "Son of the Sun", another pharaonic title, and given the throne name of Senen-setep-en-Ptah in a decree by Ptolemy Lagides [3], who became King Ptolemy I Soter in 305 BCE.
Sometime in the 330s BC, Khabash led an invasion into the kingdom of Kush which was defeated by king Nastasen and recorded in a stela now in the Berlin museum. An Apis bull sarcophagus bearing his name was found at Saqqara [4] and dated to his second year [5].
[edit] References
- ^ Phiroze Vasunia, The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander, University of California Press 2001, p.266
- ^ Records of the Past Being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments, Adamant Media Corporation 2001, p.73
- ^ The decree of Ptolemy Lagides
- ^ Karl Baedeker, Egypt, Adamant Media Corporation 2000. p.130
- ^ Samuel Birch, Ancient history from the monuments. Egypt from the earliest times to B.C. 300, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1883, p.189
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