Shebitqo

Shebitqo: name of a Nubian king ruling over Egypt (c.702-c.690).

Relatives

Father: Shabaqo
Mother: Qalhata
Wife: Arty, daughter of Piye

Life

c.702: Succeeds Shabaqo
701: War in the Levant against the Assyrian king Sennacherib; Egyptian losses, but Assyria is unable to round off the conquest of Palestine
c.690: Succeeded by Taharqo

Buildings

Tomb at El-Kurru

Literature

T.G.H. James, "Egypt. The Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Dynasties" in: Cambridge Ancient History (second edition, 1991), vol.III, part two, pp.677-747
Robert G. Morkot, The Black Pharaohs. Egypt's Nubian Rulers (2000 London), especially chapter 16

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