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| Rule | 30th Dynasty: 360-343 BC. |
| Predecessor | Uncle Teos |
| Nomen | Birth name: Nakhthorhebyt: Strong is his lord Horus |
| Praenomen | Throne name: Senedjemibre-Setepeninhur: Pleasing to the heart of Ra, chosen of Osiris |
| Capital city | Sebennytus - a city in the Delta |
| Reign |
Nectanebo II was placed on the Egyptian throne by Spartan king Agesilaus II, who helped him overthrow his uncle Teos
He returned to the old values and stability brought by the gods, and maintained the cult of the sacred animals in Armant and Bubastis
He was a very active builder, who built and refurbished temples all over Egypt in a classical Egyptian style, there are actually more than a hundred Egyptian sites that show evidence of his work including:
The temple of Apis in the Serapeum
Khnum temple at Elephantine
Building work at the temple at Edfu
A Small temple at Armant
Pylons at Karnak
A chapel for Geb and Isis at Coptos
A new temple for Bastet at Bubastis
Enlargement of the Atum and Re-Horakhty temple at Pithum
Osiris temple at Sebennytus
After seeing the disastrous encounter with the Persians in his uncle Teos, Nectanebo II did not make any more campaigns against them, but the Persians this time attacked Egypt
In 343 BC. he was defeated by the Persian king Artaxerxes III, and fled to Nubia, disappearing without trace
He was the last native Egyptian Pharaoh, and Egypt was once again reduced to a satrapy of the Persian Empire.
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| Burial | Nectanebo's unused granite sarcophagus was found in a mosque at Alexandria, it is carved with texts from the Book of the Dead |
| Successor | Persian king Artaxerxes III |
| Wikipedia | Nectanebo II |
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