Sabaces
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2|Coin of Sabaces, in imitation of Athenian coinage. Obverse: Head of Athena. Reverse: Athenian owl. To right: Sabaces symbol and [[Aramaic inscription 𐡎𐡅𐡉𐡊 SWYK. Circa 340-333 BC. Achaemenid Egypt.]] thumb|upright=1.2|Coin of Sabaces. Persian Egypt. Circa 335-333 BC
Key facts
- Egyptian dignitary.Name
- Sabaces
- Egyptian dignitary.Style
- Satrap of Egypt
- Egyptian dignitary.Image
- Sabakes portrait.jpg
- Egyptian dignitary.Caption
- Portrait of satrap Sabaces from his coinage. Circa 340-333 BC. Achaemenid Egypt.
- Egyptian dignitary.Predecessor
- Pherendates II
- Egyptian dignitary.Successor
- Mazaces
- Egyptian dignitary.Dynasty
- 31st Dynasty
- Egyptian dignitary.Pharaoh
- Darius III
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- date of death
- 0333-01-01
- date of birth
- 0400-01-01
- different from
- Sabak
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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- Sabakes
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- Resistance to Alexander the Great
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thumb|upright=1.2|Coin of Sabaces, in imitation of Athenian coinage. Obverse: Head of Athena. Reverse: Athenian owl. To right: Sabaces symbol and [[Aramaic inscription 𐡎𐡅𐡉𐡊 SWYK. Circa 340-333 BC. Achaemenid Egypt.]] thumb|upright=1.2|Coin of Sabaces. Persian Egypt. Circa 335-333 BC
Sabaces (; name variants: Sabakes, Sauaces; Sataces; Sathaces; Diodorus Siculus calls him Tasiaces (Τασιάκης); Aramaic: 𐡎𐡅𐡉𐡊 SWYK, died in 333 BC) was an Achaemenid Persian satrap of the Achaemenid Thirty-first Dynasty of Egypt during the reign of king Darius III of Persia.
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