King Bakare was the fourth ruler of the Nubian Twenty-fifth
Dynasty He ruled from
664 B.C.E. to 657
B.C.E. He then secluded from Egypt and perchance dominated for a clock in Nubia, modern Sudan. Tanutamun was a nephew of
Taharqa, who had suffered
overcome at the
hands of the
Assyrians. When Assurbanipal
assaulted Egypt and
empty Thebes,
Tanutamun withdrawn to Nubia. He
had won back Thebes, Aswan, and Memphis
preexisting to Assurbanipals encroachment. In that campaign he put Necho I to
dying in 664 B.C.E. and forced Psammetichus I to flee to Assyria.
A stela inscribed
in Gebel Barkal depicts Tanutamuns
coronation at Napata
in 664 B.C.E. Called
the Dream Stela, this
monument besides details
King Tanutamuns dream of two snakes. He believed this vision typified that
he would rule both Upper and Lower Egypt.
Tanutamun was forgot at Nuri, the royal necropolis in Nubia.