Apries

Egyptian names: Ha'a'ibra Wahibra

Relatives:

• father: Psammetichus II
• wife: Takheredeneset
• daughter: Khetbeneit-erboni II (?)

Main deeds:

• 589: Succeeds his father, who had refused to intervene in the Babylonian Empire
• Apries starts to support the Phoenician cities and Judah against Babylonia; Sidon is captured
• 586: King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia captures Jerusalem; an Egyptian army is defeated (Jeremiah, 37.5-11) king Zedekiah is taken to Mesopotamia; the prophet Jeremiah escapes to Egypt; many Judaeans become mercenaries in the Egyptian army (in Daphnae and Elephantine)
• 586?: Ankhnes-Neferibre, a sister of Apries, is made "god's wife of Amun" in Thebes
• 570: The Libyan tribal lkeader Adikran requests support against the Greeks from Cyrene; this creates tensions in Egypt between Libyan and Greeks settlers
• The Egyptian expeditionary force is defeated at Thestis; the army makes its general Amasis king, who is accepted as co-ruler
• 568/567: Unsuccessful Babylonian invasion, led by Nebuchadnezzar II
• 567: Civil war; Apries is killed by soldiers of Amasis in the battle of Mompemhis

Buildings:

• Herodotus mentions the "great and splendid palace of Apries" in Sais
• Temple of Thoth at Hermopolis Parva
• Building works in the Ptah temple at Memphis
• The fort of Memphis converted into a palace
• Temple built by Siamun at Tanis is replaced
• A sanctuary, dedicated to Osiris (but in fact the tomb of king Djer of the First Dynasty), repaired at Abydos
• New Banebdjed temple at Mendes (built 570-567)