Nectanebo II (Senedjemibre / Nakhthorheb)
360 BCE–343 BCE · Late-Period · Sebennytos
Nectanebo II (Egyptian Nakhthorheb) was the last native Egyptian pharaoh, reigning in Dynasty 30 in the Late Period around 360-343 BCE (Shaw's conventional dates). A great builder and patron of the temple cults, he held off Persia for years before the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes III reconquered Egypt in 343 BCE, forcing him to flee; his flight ended native Egyptian rule and brought on the brief Second Persian Period. In later Greek romance he was fancifully turned into the secret father of Alexander the Great, a tale belonging to the Alexander Romance and not to history. He stands at the close of some three thousand years of native Egyptian kingship; after him only foreign dynasties, Persian and then Greek, would wear the Double Crown.
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The Delta home city of his Dynasty 30. (coord approx)
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