Aktisanes

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Aktisanes was a Nubian king. He is possibly known from three inscriptions and is called by the classic author Hekataios of Abdera .

classification

One of the inscriptions with the name of the ruler is a building inscription, which is only preserved in a copy of the Lepsius expedition . She is from Nuri . The other two inscriptions are from the Amun - Temple of Gebel-Barkal ( Napata ). It is a relief fragment depicting the ruler in front of Amun-Re - Harachte - Atum and a door post. The reading of his birth name Aktisanes is not certain, however, as the corresponding monuments are not well preserved and the hieroglyphics are rather carelessly written. It became the reading Ktsnproposed, and the ruler was therefore equated with Aktisanes, known from Greek sources. Other suggested readings of the name are Pa-tjener , Gatiaqo, or Patiaqo . These name readings would forbid an equation with Aktisanes, however. It has therefore been suggested, and also because of the style of his monuments, that the ruler dates before the founding of the Nubian Empire.

The reference in Hekataios names a Nubian king Aktisanes as an enemy of the Egyptian king Amasis and is probably unhistorical.

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literature

  • László Török , in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum. Volume II: From the mid-fifth to the first century BC. Klassisk Institutt - Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen 1996, ISBN 978-82-91626-01-7 , pp. 511-520.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see the discussion in: Robert G. Morkot: The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers. Rubicon Press, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-948695-24-7 , pp. 146-147.
personal data
SURNAME Aktisanes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION nubian king
DATE OF BIRTH before 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH before 3rd century BC Chr.