Neferkare Shabaka, or Shabako (Egyptian: 𓆷𓃞𓂓šꜣ bꜣ kꜣ, Assyrian: Ša-ba-ku-u, Šabakû [3]) was the third Kushitepharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who reigned from 705 to 690 BC.[4] The Greek sources called him Sabakōn (Σαβακῶν) or, more likely, given current understanding of the order of kings and the stated reign-lengths, Sebikhōs (Σεβιχὼς), and is mentioned by both Herodotus and Manetho.[5][6][7][8]
^Dodson, Aidan & Hilton, Dyan: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN0-500-05128-3 p. 237.
^ H. D. Baker, R. Mattila, s.v. "Šabakû," in: Baker, Heather D., ed., The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire 3.2 Š-Z, Helsinki, 2011: 1180.
^Payraudeau, F., Retour sur la succession Shabaqo-Shabataqo, (in French) Nehet 1, 2014, p. 115-127.online here
^W. G. Waddell, transl., Manetho, Cambridge, MA, 1940: 166-167.
^Payraudeau, Frédéric, "Retour sur la succession Shabaqo-Shabataqo," Nehet 1 (2014) 115-127: 119; Jurman, Claus, "The Order of the Kushite Kings According to Sources from the Eastern Desert and Thebes. Or: Shabataka was here first!, Journal of Egyptian History 10 (2017) 124-151: 124, n. 1, 128.
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Ša-ba-ku-u, Šabakû [3]) was the third Kushite pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who reigned from 705 to 690 BC.[4] The Greek sources called him Sabakōn (Σαβακῶν) or, more likely, given current understanding of the order of kings and the stated reign-lengths, Sebikhōs (Σεβιχὼς), and is mentioned by both Herodotus and Manetho.[5][6][7][8]