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Forshaw, Roger
Egypt of the Saite Pharaohs, 664-525 BC, 08/2019Book Chapter
Following the death of Psamtek I in 610 BC, his only known son, Nekau, born by Mehytenweskhet C, was crowned king as Nekau II. The earliest evidence relating to him is of his campaigning east of the river Euphrates against the Babylonians, in an action either previously sanctioned by Psamtek or already under way at the time of Psamtek’s death. Nekau and the Egyptian army marched north and together with their Assyrian allies confronted a combined force of Babylonians and Medes at Harran, an engagement in which Nekau was defeated and forced to withdraw west of the Euphrates.¹ A year
