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Neferkare Shabaka, or Shabako was the third Kushite pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who reigned from 705 to 690 BC. The Greek sources call him Sabakōn or, more likely, given current unde
Sphinx head of Shabaka, on display at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Portrait of Shabaqa
Donation stela of Shabaka. Shabaka appears standing to the right, with the cartouche designating him.
Shabaka
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, was the last dynasty of the Third Intermediate
Shabaka
…Neferkare Shabaka, or Shabako (Meroitic: 𐦰𐦲𐦡𐦐𐦲 (sha-ba-ka), Egyptian: 𓆷𓃞𓂓 šꜣ bꜣ kꜣ, Assyrian: Ša-ba-ku-u, Šabakû ) was the third Kushite pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who reigned from 705 to 690 BC. The Greek sources (which include both Herodotus and Manetho) call him Sabakōn (Σαβακῶν) or, more likely, given current…
Kushite heartland, and Kushite Empire of the 25th dynasty of Egypt, c. 700 BC
Rulers of Kush, Kerma Museum
Cartouche with the name of pharaoh Shabaka
Shebitku, Nubian Museum