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Amasis (general)
Amasis was an army commander of Egypt's Saite 26th Dynasty who served Necho II, Psamtik II, and Apries, and co-led the Nubian campaign of 593 BC.
Amyrtaeus of Sais
Amyrtaeus of Sais (Greek Amyrtaios) was a prince of the Delta city of Sais who, invested as king of Egypt, joined Inaros in the rebellion against Persian king Artaxerxes I around 460 BC.
Bakenrenef (vizier)
Bakenrenef was a vizier of Egypt's 26th Dynasty under Psamtik I and a priest of Ptah and Sokar, known from a rock-cut tomb at Saqqara.
Djedhor (physician)
Djedhor the Saviour, also written Djedher, was an ancient Egyptian healer-priest at Athribis, known from a healing statue covered in spells against snake and scorpion bites.
Gemenefhorbak
Gemenefhorbak was an ancient Egyptian Vizier of the North, responsible for Lower Egypt during the 26th (Saite) Dynasty, known from his sarcophagus now in Turin.
Ibi (chief steward of Nitocris)
Ibi was chief steward of Nitocris I, God's Wife of Amun, in Thebes during the 26th Dynasty, active in the early seventh century BC under Psammetichus I.
Iufaa (priest)
Iufaa was a priest and palace official of Egypt's late 26th Dynasty, about 530–525 BC, known from his intact shaft tomb at Abusir, excavated by Czech archaeologists from 1994.
Iufaa (vizier)
Iufaa was a vizier of ancient Egypt at the beginning of the 26th (Saite) Dynasty, in office during the early reign of Psamtik I (664–610 BC).
Kombaphis
Kombaphis, also transmitted as Combaphis or Kombapheus, is a fictitious traitor priest in Ctesias' lost Persica, said to have betrayed Egypt to Cambyses II in 525 BC.
Mazaces
Mazaces, also written Mazakes, was the last Achaemenid satrap of Egypt under Darius III, defeating Amyntas's Greek troops before surrendering Egypt to Alexander in 332 BC.
Neshor
Neshor, also written Nesuhor, was a general and administrator of Egypt's 26th Dynasty under Psamtik II and Apries, appointed governor of the Door of the Southern Countries at Elephantine.
Nespamedu
Nespamedu was a southern (Theban) vizier of the late 25th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known from a granite statue found at Karnak and as the father of the vizier Nespaqashuty.
Nespaqashuty (vizier)
Nespaqashuty, also written Nespakashuty, was a vizier and Overseer of Upper Egypt under Pharaoh Psamtik I, attested in 651 BC and buried in tomb TT 312 at Deir el-Bahri in western Thebes.
Nesptah
Nesptah, also rendered Nes-Ptah, was the name of two related Theban officials of the late 25th and early 26th Dynasties, around 650 BC: Montuemhat's father and his eldest son.
Pabasa
Pabasa was great steward of the God's Wife of Amun Nitocris I at Thebes under Psamtik I, known from his rock-cut tomb TT279 at the Asasif.
Padiamenope
Padiamenope, also known as Petamenophis or Pediamenopet, was a chief lector-priest at Thebes in the late 25th and early 26th Egyptian Dynasty, around 700 to 600 BC.
Payeftjauemawyneith
Payeftjauemawyneith was a high steward and elite official of Late Saite Egypt, serving under King Apries of Dynasty 26 and known from four statues, including British Museum EA 83.
Pedon
Pedon, son of Amphinnes, was a man in the service of a Saite pharaoh of Egypt's 26th Dynasty, known from a basalt block statue he dedicated at Priene.
Peftuaneith
Peftuaneith, also rendered Payeftjauemawyneith, was a high-ranking Egyptian civil official of the late 26th Dynasty, reaching the peak of his career under King Apries in the sixth century BC.
Petiese (prince of Athribis)
Petiese was an official of Athribis in the Egyptian Delta who surrendered his residence city to the Kushite king Piye, as recorded on the Victory Stela of Piye.
Petiese (prophet of Amun)
Petiese, also written Pediese, was a prophet of Amun at Teudjoi in Middle Egypt who lived under the Persian king Darius I and wrote the Petition of Petiese.
Petosiris (High Priest of Thoth)
Petosiris was high priest of the temple of Thoth at Hermopolis in Middle Egypt around the Macedonian conquest of Egypt, known chiefly from his monumental family tomb at Tuna el-Gebel.
Phanes of Halicarnassus
Phanes of Halicarnassus (Φάνης) was a Greek mercenary commander who served Pharaoh Amasis II, then defected to Cambyses II, aiding the Persian conquest of Egypt in 525 BC.
Pherendates
Pherendates, called Farandata in Egyptian texts, was the Achaemenid satrap of Egypt under Darius I, known from demotic letters of 493–492 BC to the priests of Khnum at Elephantine.
Pherendates II
Pherendates II was a Persian installed as satrap (governor) of Egypt at Memphis by Artaxerxes III after the Achaemenid reconquest of 343 BC, during the Second Persian Period.
Potasimto
Potasimto was an Egyptian army commander under Pharaoh Psamtik II, leading foreign mercenaries in the 593 BC campaign against Kush, known from the Abu Simbel graffiti.
Psammetichus (son of Theocles)
Psammetichus, son of Theocles, was a second-generation Greek soldier named in the mercenary graffiti carved at Abu Simbel during pharaoh Psammetichus II's Nubian campaign of 593/591 BC.
Psamtik-seneb
Psamtik-seneb, also known as Psammetichus-seneb, was governor of the Saite nome in the western Nile Delta during the reign of Psamtik I of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
Sabaces
Sabaces, also written Sabakes, was the Persian satrap of Egypt under Darius III. He was killed fighting Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC.
Sematawytefnakht
Sematawytefnakht, also rendered Somtutefnakht, was an Egyptian priest and dignitary of Heracleopolis whose career ran from the last native kings through the Second Persian Domination to early Macedonian rule.