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Amasis II
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Amasis II, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1685 / CC BY SA 3.0 • #6th-century_BC_Pharaohs • #Pharaohs_of_the_Twenty-sixth_Dynasty_of_Egypt • #526_BC_deaths • #Kings_of_Egypt_in_Herodotus • #Philhellenes • Amasis II （Ancient Greek: Ἄμασις） or Ahmose II was a pharaoh （reigned 570 – 526 BCE） of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, the successor of Apries at Sais. • He was the last great ruler of Egypt before the Persian conquest. • Most of our information about him is derived from Herodotus （2.161ff） and can only be imperfectly verified by monumental evidence. • According to the Greek historian, he was of common origins. • He was originally an officer in the Egyptian army. • His birthplace was Siuph at Saïs. • He took part in a general campaign of Pharaoh Psamtik II in 592 BC in Nubia. • A revolt which broke out among native Egyptian soldiers gave him his opportunity to seize the throne. • These troops, returning home from a disastrous military expedition to Cyrene in Libya, suspected that they had been betrayed in order that Apries, • the reigning king, might rule more absolutely by means of his Greek mercenaries; many Egyptians fully sympathized with them. • General Amasis, sent to meet them and quell the revolt, was proclaimed king by the rebels instead, and Apries, who then had to rely entirely on his mercenaries, was defeated. • Apries fled to the Babylonians and was captured and killed mounting an invasion of his native homeland in 567 BCE with the aid of a Babylonian army. • An inscription confirms the struggle between the native Egyptian and the foreign soldiery, and proves that Apries was killed and honourably buried in the third year of Amasis （c. 567 BCE）. • Amasis then married Chedebnitjerbone II, one of the daughters of his predecessor Apries, in order to legitimise his kingship. • Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset, as a bust of her, today located in the British Museum, shows. • A stone block from Mehallet el-Kubra a...
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