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Tjahapimu or Tjahepimu, (fl. c.360 BCE) was an ancient Egyptian prince, general and regent during the 30th Dynasty. Biography. Tjahapimu most likely was a son of pharaoh Nectanebo I and thus a brother of pharaoh Teos, though he is sometimes rather reported as a "brother" of Nectanebo I and an "uncle" of Teos.
The king's brother, Tjahapimu, took advantage of this to install his own son, Nectanebo II, on the throne. Nectanebo II (Nakhtnebef II) 360-343 BC Senedjemibra Setenpeninhur: Merytawy The last native ruler of ancient Egypt, his deposition marked the end of Egyptian hegemony until 1952.
Ad ordire il complotto fu il padre di Nectanebo, Tjahapimu, che il fratello aveva lasciato come reggente in Egitto essendosi il sovrano posto alla guida dell'esercito inviato a conquistare la Palestina.
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Nectanebo's Egyptian personal name was Nḫt-nb.f, which means "the strong one of his lord". Greek sources rendered the name as Νεκτάνεβις (Nectanebis). The writings of Manetho which have been preserved by George Syncellus spell it Νεκτανέβης (Nectanebēs), but this is probably only based on a phonetic approximation due to iotacism. Although conventio...
Accession and family
Nectanebo was an army general from Sebennytos, son of an important military officer named Djedhor and of a lady whose name is only partially recorded, [...]mu. A stele found at Hermopolis provides some evidence that he came to power by overthrowing, and possibly putting to death, the last pharaoh of the 29th Dynasty Nepherites II. It has been suggested that Nectanebo was assisted in the coup by the Athenian general Chabrias. Nectanebo carried out the coronation ceremony in c. 379/8 BCE in bot...
Activities in Egypt
Nectanebo was a great builder and restorer, to an extent not seen in Egypt for centuries. He ordered work on many of the templesacross the country. On the sacred island of Philae near Aswan, he began the temple of Isis, which would become one of the most important religious sites in ancient Egypt, by erecting its vestibule. Nectanebo also began the First Pylon in the Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, and it is believed that the earliest known mammisi, which was found at Dendera, was built by him...
Defeating Persian invasion
In 374/3 BCE Nectanebo had to face a Persian attempt to retake Egypt, which was still considered by the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes II nothing more than a rebel satrapy. After a six-year preparation and applying pressure on Athens to recall the Greek general Chabrias, Artaxerxes dispatched a great army led by the Athenian general Iphicrates and the Persian Pharnabazus. It has been recorded that the army was composed of over 200,000 troops, including Persian soldiers and Greek mercenaries, and...
Nectanebo died during his 19th year as ruler. His tomb, sarcophagus and mummy have never been found. Towards the end of his reign (in Year 16 – 364/3 BCE), probably to remedy the dynastic problems that plagued his predecessors, Nectanebo restored the long-lost practice of the co-regency, associating his son Teos to the throne. However, shortly afte...
de Meulenaere, Herman (1963). "La famille royale des Nectanébo". Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde. 90: 90–93. doi:10.1524/zaes.1963.90.1.90. S2CID 201843308.
Nectanebo and the Alexander Romance. References. Bibliography. Nectanebo II ( Egyptian: Nḫt -Ḥr-Ḥbt; Greek: Νεκτανεβώς Nectanebos) was the last native ruler of ancient Egypt, as well as the third and last pharaoh of the Thirtieth Dynasty, reigning from 358 to 340 BC.
Teos placed himself in the supreme command of the expedition (the position claimed by Agesilaus) leaving his brother Tjahapimu, the father of Nakhthorheb, in Egypt as his regent. The expedition made its way to Phoenicia without particular problems. Betrayal and end Teos, cartouche fragment
Tjahapimu o Tjahepimu, (fl. c.360 aC) va ser un príncep, general i regent egipci durant la XXX dinastia . Biografia. Tjahapimu probablement era fill del faraó Nectabeu I i, per tant, germà del faraó Teos, [1] [2] [3] tot i que sovint se'l considera també un "germà" de Nectabeu I i un "oncle" de Teos. [4] .
