Shabaka

Shabaka
Shabaka
	Sphinx head of Shabaka, on display at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Pharaoh
Reign	705–690 BC
Predecessor	Shebitku
Successor	Taharqa
Horus name
Horus name
	Sebeqtawy; The one who has blessed the Two Lands;
Nebty name
	Sebeqtawy; The one who has blessed the Two Lands;
Golden Horus
	Sebeqtawy; The one who has blessed the Two Lands;
Prenomen (Praenomen)
	Neferkare; Beautiful is the Soul of Re;
Nomen
	Shabaka
	;
Consort	Qalhata, Mesbat, possibly Tabekenamun
Children	Tantamani, Haremakhet, Piankharty, Isetemkheb
Father	Kashta
Mother	Pebatjma
Died	690 BC
Burial	el-Kurru
Monuments	Shabaka Stone
Dynasty	25th Dynasty

nomen or birth name

šȝ bȝ kȝ (Shabaka)
in hieroglyphs

Neferkare Shabaka, or Shabako (Egyptian: 𓆷𓃞𓂓 šꜣ bꜣ kꜣ, Assyrian: Sha-ba-ku-u) was the third Kushite pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who reigned from 705 to 690 BC.^[3] The Greek sources called him Sabacon (Σαβακῶν) and is mentioned by both Herodotus and Manetho.^[4]^[5]

^ [1] King Shabako
^ Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 p.237
^ F. Payraudeau, Retour sur la succession Shabaqo-Shabataqo, Nehet 1, 2014, p. 115-127 online here
^ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Sabacon
^ Jack Finegan (1979). Archaeological History Of The Ancient Middle East. Westview Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0891581642.