kingdom · Egypt, North Africa and Sudan

Twenty-eighth Dynasty of Egypt

404 BCE – 398 BCE · capital Sais

A one-king dynasty under Amyrtaeus of Sais, who freed Egypt from Persian rule in 404 BCE.

Origins

Amyrtaeus, a prince of Sais and probably a grandson of an earlier rebel of the same name, led a revolt against Achaemenid Egypt when Darius II died in 404 BCE. By about 400 BCE even the Jewish garrison at Elephantine dated its documents by his reign.

Rule and society

Very little is known of his rule. He controlled the Delta and gradually the whole country, and Persia, distracted by the revolt of Cyrus the Younger, did not try to recover Egypt.

Decline and legacy

Around 399 to 398 BCE Amyrtaeus was overthrown by Nepherites I of Mendes, founder of the Twenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt; an Aramaic papyrus suggests he was executed.

Lineage

Achaemenid Egypt 525 BCE – 404 BCETwenty-eighth Dynasty of EgyptTwenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt 398 BCE – 380 BCE

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