Kashta

The Hieroglyphic name of Kashta

Kashta was the beginner  of  the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. He  reigned  from  770  B.C.E. until his death in Gebel Barkal in Nubia (contemporary Sudan), but he was taken in much  of  Upper Egypt.  Kashtas queen was Pebatma, probably the mother of his sons, Piankhi (1) (Piye) and Shabaka. His sister or girl,  Amenirdis (1), was called  gods wife of amun, or  Divine  Adoratrice  of Amun, at Thebes, and was followed by Shepenwepet (1). Piankhi succeeded Kashta, who during his rule erected a stela to the god khnum on Elephantine Island. The rule of  Osorkon III (777-749  B.C.E.)  in  the  Deltas 23rd Dynasty, a contemporary royal line, was open by Kashtas move into Upper Egypt.

Kashta

Upper Egypt under Kashta:

While Kashta found Nubia from Napata, which is 400 kilometres north of Khartoum, the latest capital of Sudan, he besides exercised a strong degree of ensure over Upper Egypt by dealing to install his daughter, Amenirdis I, as the credible God's Wife of Amun in Thebes in line to follow the serving Divine Adoratrice of Amun, Shepenupet I, Osorkon III's daughter. This growing was "the key moment in the process of the wing of Kushite power over Egyptian territories" under Kashta's rule since it formally legitimized the Kushite putsch of the Thebaid region The Hungarian Kushite student, L?szl? T?r?k, lines that there were credibly already Kushite garrisons placed in Thebes itself during Kashta's reign both to protect this king's confidence over Upper Egypt and to thwart a manageable future encroachment of this region from Lower Egypt.

Török honors that Kashta's appearance as King of Upper and Lower Egypt and passive takeover of Upper Egypt is advised both "by the fact that the descendants of Osorkon III, Takelot III and Rudamun continued to enjoy a leading social status in Thebes in the second half of the 8th and in the first half of the 7th century" [BCE] as is shown by their sepultures in this city as well as the joint natural action between the Divine Adoratrice Shepenupet I and the god's Wife of Amun Elect Amenirdis I, Kashta's daughter. A stela from Kashta's reign has been learned in Elephantine (modern day Aswan)--at the topical temple dedicated to the god Khnum—which demonstrates to his control of this region. It bears his royal name or prenomen: Nimaatre. Egyptologists today trust that either he or more likely Piye was the Year 12 Nubian king mentioned in a well-known dedication at Wadi Gasus which associates the Adopted god's Adoratice of Amun, Amenirdis, Kashta's daughter together with Year 19 of the serving God's Wife of Amun, Shepenupet. Kashta's reign length is strange. Some sources credit Kashta as the break of the 25th dynasty since he was the first Kushite king known to have expanded his kingdom's influence into Upper Egypt. Under Kashta's reign, the clean Kushite universe of his kingdom, based between the third and fourth Cataracts of the Nile, became rapidly 'Egyptianized' and followed Egyptian traditions, religion and culture Kashta's heir was Piye.

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