Nespaqashuty C was an
ancient Egyptian
Vizier who officiated during the early
25th Dynasty
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25), also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, was the last dynasty of th ...
, during the reign of
pharaoh Shebitku
Shebitku ( egy, šꜣ-bꜣ-tꜣ-kꜣ, Neo-Assyrian: , grc, Σεθῶν ) also known as Shabataka or Shebitqo, and anglicized as Sethos, was the second pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt who ruled from 714 BC – 705 BC, according to t ...
. Being the "Vizier of the South", he resided and officiated from
Thebes, in
Upper Egypt.
Nespaqashuty is known from two small magical bricks found in tomb D13 in
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. Nespaqashuty C is the father of the Vizier
Nespamedu
Nespamedu was an ancient Egyptian Vizier who officiated during the 25th Dynasty during the reign of Taharqa. Nespamedu followed his father Nespaqashuty C as vizier.
Biography
Nespamedu was the son of the Vizier Nespaqashuty C and his wife Takh ...
and the grandfather of Vizier
Nespaqashuty D. Nespaqashuty was married to the lady Takhaenbast and also had a daughter of that same name.
[Anthony Leahy, Two Late Period Stelae in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Bd. 8 (1980), pp. 169-180]
References
Ancient Egyptian viziers
People of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
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