Nectanebo I
Nectanebo I
| Nectanebo (Nekhtnebef, in Greek Nectanabo) was the founder of the
XXX dynasty (378-360). He gave to Neith’s temple in Sais the tenth part of the import and of the production of the Greek market in Naukratis. An intense resumption of thee architectural activity in the temples from Philae to Behbeit al-Hagar and Tanis, illustrate the material comfort of the country and answer to a politic deliberated to the recourse of the divinities’ providential action. Stopped by the forts in Pelusio, a Persian attack lost itself in the marshes flood by the mendesiano branch: Egypt was safe for a quarter of a century. |
