Shabaka

Manéthon calls it Shabaka . He is king of Napata and Pharaon of -716 with -702. He is the brother and successor of Piânkhy.

He marries Mesbet and Tabaketamon. He has two children: Horemakhet and Tanoutamon (king of -664 with -656, dubious filiation). He is buried with El-Kourrou under the referred pyramid Ku 15 in the necropolis royal.

Genealogy

Titulature

Reign

As of its second year of reign, it joined Memphis to affirm its capacity there and is made crown Pharaon. It then decides to go towards north. It crushes and puts an end to the reign Bakenranef the king of Know (). It thus takes the control of all the valley of the Nile, of the Dongola Sudanese in the Mediterranean.

It remakes the unit of the country by eliminating all the other dynasties. But the Assyrian are again threatening with the doors of the Eastern Delta, Chabaka will act with courtesy in their connection and thus ensures Egypt one period of peace. It is possible that it concluded also an peace agreement with the Assyrians, preferable with an open confrontation without much chance of success for him. In the religious field, it continues the work of Piânkhy and preaches the return to the traditional values. With Karnak. It restores the function of Grand priest of Amon, fallen in disuse and installs his son Horemakhet there. The function of Large Priest finds a new dimension; its capacity is divided by that, political, of the Divines Adoratrices d' Amon. It covers the country of temples, but especially any freedom with the worships of the Egyptian divinities gives again some. It honors itself the Gods with Memphis and Thèbes. It makes new constructions with Karnak.

One owes him the stone of Shabaka which is with the British Museum. At the time of a visit to the temple of Ptah, Shabaka discovers with horror that the worms attacked the papyrus more crowned, where are reported the accession of Horus to the throne of Egypt and the myth memphite of the creative god. It gives the order to engrave the text at once remaining on a block of black granite.

Burial

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