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AN EGYPTIAN DARK GREY BASALT FRAGMENTARY STATUE BASE OF KING APRIES
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AN EGYPTIAN DARK GREY BASALT FRAGMENTARY STATUE BASE OF KING APRIES

REIGN OF APRIES, 589-570 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN DARK GREY BASALT FRAGMENTARY STATUE BASE OF KING APRIES
REIGN OF APRIES, 589-570 B.C.
With finely and realistically modelled oversized left foot, an inscription to the side of the foot includes a cartouche, reading: "Wah-ib-re, like the living Ra, beloved of Neith the great Mother Goddess", along each side of the base finely carved hieroglyphs, with the rebus name of the King, front: "the living Horus Wah-ib-[re] King of Upper and Lower Egypt", side: "the Two Ladies (Vulture and Snake goddesses), Lord of Strength...", traces of right foot visible
16 x 12½ in. (42 x 31.5 cm.); 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high
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Wahibre, better known as King Apries (589-570 B.C.), the fourth king of the Saite 26th Dynasty, was the son and successor of Psammetichus II, and named in the Bible as the Pharaoh 'Hophra'. His reign was dominated by campaigns to protect the north-eastern frontiers, including his defeat in 587 B.C. by the Babylonian army under Nebuchadnezzer, which ended in the sacking of Jerusalem in 587/6 B.C. It was a campaign in Cyrene, against a colony of Greeks on the North African coast, that was Apries' downfall. His troops were defeated and Egyptian subjects blamed their Pharaoh. In the resulting civil war Apries was deposed and the general Amasis gained control. Apries tried to regain the throne but when the two sides met in 570 B.C. he was killed. Nevertheless, Apries was given the final honour when he was buried as king in Sais.