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Shabaka and the Shabaka Stone

c. 716 – 702 BCE (reign; chronologies vary)

Kush (Sudan) and Memphis, Egypt

Kushite king Shabaka, brother and successor of Piye, ruled Egypt from Memphis; his Shabaka Stone records the Memphite Theology, in which Ptah creates all things through the spoken word.

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Glazed steatite fragmentary statuette of King Shabaqo (Shabaka) kneeling, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1990). License: CC0 (Met Open Access, public domain).

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Sources

  1. The British Museum, "Shabaka Stone" (EA498) (Primary source)
  2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Shabaka" (Reference)
  3. BlackPast.org, "25th Dynasty, Ancient Egypt (ca. 746 BC – 653 BC)" (Reference)

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