Pharaoh.SEPHARAOH.SE

Cambyses II

The first pharaoh of the Twenty-Seventh Dynasty
Prenomen: Mesutira
Also known as: Kabūjiya
Accession 525 BC
End of reign 522 BC
Duration 3 years

Titulary & Hieroglyphs

smA-tAwj
Sema tawy
smꜢ-tꜢwꞽ
"The one who has united the Two Lands"
Posener, La premiere domination Perse en Egypte, Bibliothèque d'Étude 11 (1936): 35 (4)
Beckerath, “Handbuch”:220-221, 1:H
mswt-ra
Mesut Ra
mswt-rꜤ
"The offspring of Ra"
Posener, La premiere domination Perse en Egypte, Bibliothèque d'Étude 11 (1936): 35 (4)
Beckerath, “Handbuch”:220-221, 1:T1
kmbD
Kembud
kmbḏ
"Kambus (Cambyses)"
Hammamat inscription no. 164
Couyat, Montet, Les inscriptions hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques du Ouâdi Hammâmât, MIFAO 34 (1912), 93-94
Beckerath, “Handbuch”:220-221, 1:E2·Lepsius, “Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien”:III, 283m
kmbD
Kembud
kmbḏ
"Kambus (Cambyses)"
Posener, La premiere domination Perse en Egypte, Bibliothèque d'Étude 11 (1936): 35 (4)
Beckerath, “Handbuch”:220-221, 1:E1

Sources of antiquity

Author Greek Transcription Reign
Africanus  xxvii, 1 Καμβυσης Cambyses 6 years
Eusebius  xxvii, 1 Καμβυσης Cambyses 3 years

References