Nectanébo

Nectanébo ( Khéperka Re ) which reigned of -380 with -362 is one of the last Egyptians on the throne of Egypt. He was a large manufacturer or reconstructor of the principal temples of Egypt reunified for the last time by sovereigns of local origin. He built with Know and with Bubastis where reliefs jubilaires were found although he does not reach the number of reign necessary to proceed to the jubilee of the Heb sed . He also intervened with Héliopolis by embellishing the sanctuary of the god Re. Lions laid down with its name which are today with Rome where they had been imported for the temple of Isis of the imperial capital, were initially to then decorate the entry of one of the sanctuaries of the city of the sun, thus continuing the work of its predecessors and being attached more still to the tradition saïte.

Titulature

Reign

Its reign marks a new boom de for the country, revival of the trade with raising and the Greece; it gained a victory against the invader Perse. It is shown very active, restoring the temples ruined in all the country, of which Louxor and Philae.

It restores the laws and enacts of them news through great decrees registered on granite steles placed in each large city of Egypt. The famous decree of Naucratis fixes the taxes thus that each foreign merchant borrowing the delta was to pour with the temple of Neith to Know. A new specimen of this monumental stele was recently discovered with broad of Aboukir not far from Alexandria.

More in the west it made contruire with Hibis in the oasis of Khargeh a temple devoted to Amon which was continuously embellished by its successors following the example other well-known Egyptian temples.

It founded a temple with Abydos where was found a fragmentary naos currently exposed in the collections of the museum of Cairo. It is of its reign also that date the first Mammisi of Denderah, whose architecture inaugurates a type of monument which known a systematic development in the large sanctuaries of the country at the period Lagide.

It developed the site of Karnak by building the first pylon temple, but also by protecting it by a monumental raw brick enclosure. It made in the same way for Louxor and arranged large the Dromos which precedes the temple by Amon-Min whose sphinx carry all its titulature. It is of its reign that date the first state of the sanctuary of Isis to the temple of Philae close to Assouan, as well as the kiosk which always accommodates the visitors of the crowned island.

Managing to push back the threat outside, its reign was the departure of an ultimate revival of art and power of Egypt which for still a few decades will maintain its independence vis-a-vis Persia.

With his large royal wife Khedeb-Neith-yer-bone it will have a son, Téos which will succeed to him on the throne.

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