It is known that Psamtik I was the first pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty, and he united Egypt in the eighth year of his reign when he sent a powerful fleet in March 656 BC. M, to Thebes and forced the "Queen of Egypt" to take his daughter Nitocris as her heir, and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities had In 2017, a part of the royal statue of Basmatik was discovered in the Matareya area, specifically in Al-Khamis market, and the statue was moved to the museum garden of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir. the seventh day".
According to the research of the archaeologist Ahmed Al-Senussi, the 26th dynasty begins with King Psamtik I, son of King Nikau, and ends with King Psamtik III, and Selim Hassan believes that he started a new era in the life of Egypt. Not from the Assyrians only, but also from the Kushites, and the country rose to a renaissance that was proverbial in the history of Egypt.
There is a lot of controversy about the name of this king. “Petri” believes that the name Basmatik in its composition is a model of the name (Shapataka), which means wild cat, and it goes back to the Kushite origin, but there is a completely opposite opinion that it has a Libyan origin and means the son of a lion. Wiedemann and Spiegelberg" asserts that the origin of the name is purely Egyptian, and that the linguistic interpretation of the name is "the man of the god Tek", and that Tek is the local deity of the place where this family arose in the Nile Delta, especially the Sais region.
It seems that the beginning of the reign of King Psamtik I was full of difficulties and obstacles, and that the news that spoke of him was full of him and he was exiled by his opponents and he was trapped in the swamps of the Mediterranean coast.
King Psamtik did not have a large family like his predecessors of kings, but it is certainly true by all charters that he did not marry only once, but was loyal to his small family, his wife "Mhitnoskhet", his daughter "Nitokris" and his son "Nikao", the prince who was known as (Nikao) The second) and rose to the throne of Egypt in the year 609 BC, after the death of his father, King Bismatic I. The number of years of his reign is not known yet in detail.
Thu, Sep. 30, 2021
