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PSAMMETICHUS (Egypt. Psammetk) , the name of three kings of the Saite, XXVIth Dynasty, called by Herodotus
Manetho , however, carries it back through three or four predecessors who ruled at Sais as petty
Herodotus
Egypt
chief
rule
represent this combination of rulers. If the dynasties were numbered thus before Manetho , the numeral may be the cause of Herodotus's confusion. After his father's death Psammetichus I. (664-610 B.C.) was able to defy the Assyrians and the Ethiopians, and during a long reign marked by intimate relations with the Greeks restored the prosperity of Egypt
See above, EGYPT: History; on the name, F. Ll. Griffith, Catalogue of the Rylands
demotic papyri; the portrait, H. Schafer in Zeitschrift fair
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