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1072: 294:. In this inscription the throne name and the nomen of the king are preserved, but the nomen Gatisen is difficult to read. The same holds true for a doorjamb from the same place providing the full titulary of the king, but with the nomen only partly preserved. 269:
It had been assumed that in the fourth century BC, there was a Ramesside revival in Nubia. Other researchers have pointed out that the reading of the name Gatisen is uncertain. They place the king before 700 BC and assume that there was no Ramesside revival.
290:. The names of the king are not preserved, most importantly the nomen Gatisen is missing. The other inscription is to be found on two adjoining blocks, showing the king in front of Amun-Re-Horachte-Atum. The blocks were found at the 305:. This seems unlikely as the earlier Nubian kings are well-known. Therefore and for other reasons it is in general assumed that Hecataeus chose the name of a contemporary Nubian king as he composed his more fictional story. 516: 301:. This identification is not certain, especially because the reading of the name as Gatisen is uncertain. Hecataeus describes Aktisanes as an enemy of the Egyptian king 454: 225: 241: 247: 1101: 1096: 152: 108: 129: 231: 132: 123: 137: 135: 447: 126: 219: 427: 368: 286:, but only published in 1977. The text was only partly preserved. It once most likely adorned a door at a temple in 440: 228:: Wer-menu-em-per-itef-Amen-en-nepet ("Whose monuments are great in the house of his father Amun in Napata") 593: 568: 254:
Gatisen had a Ramesside-style titulary. His Horus name Kanakht-merymaat is the same as the Horus name of
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The name Gatisen has been identified with Aktisanes, known from the Greek historian
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László Török, The kingdom of Kush: handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization
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László Török, The kingdom of Kush: handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization
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Eine verschollene Bauinschrift des frühmeroitischen Königs Aktisanes(?)
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His longest text is a now lost building inscription copied by the
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Index

Kushite King
Meroe
Nastasen
Aryamani
hieroglyphs
Era
New Kingdom
Nubian
Hecataeus of Abdera
Horus name
Nebty name
Golden horus name
Prenomen
Nomen
Ramesses II
Osorkon II
Shoshenq III
Lepsius
Nuri
Napata
Jebel Barkal
Hecataeus of Abdera
Amasis
Jebel Barkal
Actisanes
List of monarchs of Kush
ISBN
0-948695-24-2
ISBN
82-91626-01-4

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