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Sources for Cambyses, image, image, the epitaph is on this stele for the…
Sources for Cambyses
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Documents from Egypt
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Udjahorresnet
hard green naophorous statue of Udjahorresnet, now in the Vatican
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in this text he talks of his career under Cambyses II and Darius I, providing an example of an Egyptian official working under Persian rule
Udjahorresnet had already served under the pharaohs Amasis and Psammetichus before becoming 'chief physician' under Cambyses
Cambyses is referred to by the Egyptian royal title of 'King of Upper and Lower Egypt', as well as by a personal royal name, Mesuti-Re, "Offspring of Re"
following the Egyptian tradition of kingship, the Persian kings as pharaohs were given a semi-divine status in Egypt
"I petitioned the Majesty of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Cambyses, about all the foreigners who were dwelling in the temple of Neith"
Udjahorresnet takes credit for drawing Cambyses' attention to the need for restoration of temple of the goddess Neith at Sais
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Cambyses can be seen to pursue the same policy of political and religious integration as his father Cyrus II, by honouring the country's gods, restoring the temples, ensuring that religious rites were carried out
Udjahorresnet demonstrates that the local elite were not only excluded from the royal life, but could prosper under the Persian kings
Apis Bull
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Together these texts prove that Cambyses honoured the death of the sacred Apis bull with proper funerary rites
this disproves Herodotus' notion that Cambyses showed no respect for the cult of the Apis bull and murdered the animal
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