Ancient Egypt The Late and Persian Periods Expansion

Ancient Egypt The Late and Persian Periods

Expansion of the Assyrians

Map of Lower Egypt

Relief of Nitocris, God’s Wife of Amun, from her Karnak chapel Detail of a depicting Psamtik I giving offerings to Atum (26 th Dyn) from a temple in Rosetta; British Museum

Reconstruction of Nebuchadnezzar’s Ishtar Gate, ca 575, Pergamon Museum, Berlin

Obelisk of Montecitorio, Rome; moved from a monument of Psamtek II (26 th Dyn) at Heliopolis by Augustus to form the gnomon of the Solarium Augusti Detail of a relief showing Psamtek II praying; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Apries' obelisk, the Pulcino della Minerva (26 th Dyn)

Greywake head of a statue of Ahmose II (26 th Dyn); Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin

The Persian Empire

Cambyses II venerating Apis (27 th Dyn) Cambyses II capturing Psamtik III; from a Persian seal

Wooden door, possibly from a small shrine, depicting Darius I making an offering to the Egyptian gods Anubis and Isis (27 th Dyn), 28 cm high; British Museum

The Persian Empire

Naucratis stele showing Nectanebo I offering to Neith, Goddess of Sais (30 th Dyn), 68 cm wide; Egyptian Museum

Sarcophagus of Nectanebo II (30 th Dyn)

Conquest of Alexander the Great

Detail of the Alexander Mosaic, National Archaeological Museum, Naples

View through the Temple of the Oracle of Amun at Siwa

Kingdoms of the Diadochi after the battle of Ipsus, 301

The Rosetta Stone, establishing the divine cult of Ptolemy V (196), 76 cm wide; British Museum.

Palaeolithic 700, 000 -7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic 8800 -4700 Early Middle Late 8800 -6800 6600 -5100 -4700 Predynastic Lower Egypt Neolithic Maadi Upper Egypt Badarian Naqada III 5300 -3000 5300 -4000 -3200 4400 -4000 -3500 (Amratian) 3500 -3200 (Gerzean) 3200 -3000 (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th-30 th) 2 d Persian Period Ptolemaic Period Macedonian 332 -310 Ptolemaic 305 -30 Roman 525 -404 343 -332 332 -30 30 BCE-642 CE