Ruler
Nectanebo II
Last native-born king of Egypt
360 – 343 BCE
Regnal dates after Shaw (2000); they are more precise for this period than for earlier ones.
Biography
Last king of the Thirtieth Dynasty and the last native-born pharaoh before many centuries of foreign rule. He built widely in the temples, then was defeated by the Persians in 343 BCE and fled south.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Nectanebo II is regarded as the last native-born king to rule an independent Egypt before the second Persian conquest in 343 BCE.
- Ian Shaw (ed.) (2000) “The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt” Oxford University Press