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Also known as Khabash

Khabash, also Khababash or Khabbash, was Pharaoh of Egypt in the 4th century BC. During the second Persian occupation of Egypt (343–332 BC), he led a revolt against the Persian rule for two or three years from ca. 338 BC, a few years before the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great.

Key facts

Pharaoh.name
Khabash
Pharaoh.alt_name
Khababash, Khabbash
Pharaoh.role
Rebel Pharaoh
Pharaoh.image
Stela Nastasen Kambasuten Lepsius.jpg
Pharaoh.image_size
250px
Pharaoh.caption
Part of the Stela of Nastasen mentioning (row 13) the Egyptian invader Kambasuten (most likely Khabash)
Pharaoh.reign
338 – 335 BC
Pharaoh.dynasty
(?)
Pharaoh.predecessor
Artaxerxes III
Pharaoh.successor
Artaxerxes IV or Darius III
Pharaoh.prenomen
Senen-setepu-ni-ptahSnn-stpw-nj-PtḥImage [of Tatenen], chosen of Ptah
Pharaoh.prenomen_hiero
s-M22-M22-n:Q3:X1-V28-A40-U21
Pharaoh.nomen
KhabbashḪbbš
Pharaoh.nomen_hiero
M12-W10-E10-M8

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Khabash, also Khababash or Khabbash, was Pharaoh of Egypt in the 4th century BC. During the second Persian occupation of Egypt (343–332 BC), he led a revolt against the Persian rule for two or three years from ca. 338 BC, a few years before the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great.

Little is known about Khabash. His name is not Egyptian, and he may have been of Libyan or Nubian descent. He is referred to as "Lord of both lands", i.e. King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and as "Son of Ra", another pharaonic title, and given the throne name of Senen-setep-en-Ptah in a decree of Ptolemy Lagides, who later became King Ptolemy I Soter, dated to 312 BC.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khababash” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.