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Psamtik I

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[sam-tik] / ˈsæm tɪk /

noun

  1. king of Egypt 663–609 b.c. (son of Necho I).


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One such was Sema-tawy-tefnakht, a blood relative of Pharaoh Psamtik I, who commissioned a stylized likeness of himself in rare and unfrugal alabaster, ordered it set in the temple of Amun at Karnak.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 655 Psamtik I reunited and resurrected her while his overlord Assurbanipal was wrecking his—Assurbanipal's—empire elsewhere; thirteen decades afterwards, in 525, she fell before Cambyses.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

Its founder, Psamtik I, the great-grandfather of Hophra, had built here a fort to guard the highway.

From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Kent, Charles Foster

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