Editing Piye (section)

{{short description|Ancient Kushite king and Egyptian pharaoh}}
{{redirects|Paanchi|other usages|Paanchi (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox pharaoh
|Name=Piye
|Image=Stele Piye Mariette.jpg
|Caption=Drawing of the upper part of the [[Stele of Piye]]. The lunette on the top depicts Piye being tributed by various Lower Egypt rulers, and the text describes his successful invasion of Egypt. While the stele itself dates back to Piye's reign in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, it also describes events from the Twenty-third Dynasty.
|ImageSize=300px
|NomenHiero=<hiero>p-S34-i-i</hiero>
|Nomen=''Piy''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/chronology/piy.html |title=King Piy |access-date=2007-06-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426111147/http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/chronology/piy.html |archive-date=2007-04-26 }} Piy (Piankhi)</ref><ref name="tla859167">{{cite web|url=https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/lemma/859167 |title=Py (Lemma ID 859167)|editor= Altägyptisches Wörterbuch|website=Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae|access-date=2024-08-09}}</ref>
|Prenomen=''Usimare''
|Golden=''Sasha-qenu''
|Nebty=''Mes-hemut''
|Horus=''Zematawy''
|GoldenHiero=
|NebtyHiero=
|HorusHiero=
|Reign=744–714 BC 
|Predecessor=[[Kashta]]
|Successor=[[Shebitku]]
|Spouse= [[Tabiry]], [[Abar (queen)|Abar]], [[Khensa]], [[Peksater]]
|Children= Pharaoh [[Taharqa]], God's Wife [[Shepenupet II]], Queen [[Qalhata]], Queen [[Arty (queen)|Arty]], Queen [[Tabekenamun]], Queen [[Naparaye]], Queen [[Takahatenamun]], Har, Khaliut
|Dynasty=[[Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt|25th Dynasty]]
|Father= King [[Kashta]]
|Mother= possibly Queen [[Pebatjma]]
|Born=
|Died=
|Burial=[[el-Kurru]]
|Monuments=Stelae at [[Jebel Barkal]], enlargement of [[Temple of Amun, Jebel Barkal]], Pyramid at [[El-Kurru]]
|Alt=Piankhi, Piankhy, Paankhi, Paanchi
|}}
'''Piye''' (also interpreted as '''Pankhy''' or '''Piankhi''';<ref>{{Cite journal|first1=Karola |last1=Zibelius-Chen| year=2006| title=Zur Problematik der Lesung des Königsnamens Pi(anch)i| journal=Der Antike Sudan| volume=17|pages=127–133| url=https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/mittsag/article/view/85101/79392}}</ref>{{efn|The complete nomen is always written with an [[ankh]] hieroglyph (𓋹 "life, live"),<ref name="tla859167" /> once presumed a phonemic part of the name, but now thought to be an unpronounced<ref>{{cite book |last1=von Beckerath |first1=Jürgen |title=Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen |date=1999 |publisher=Verlag Philipp von Zabern |location=Mainz am Rhein |pages=206-207 |edition=2nd|language=German|isbn=9783805325912}}</ref> [[determinative]] or an inserted honorific,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leprohon |first1=Ronald J. |title=The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary |date=2013 |publisher=Society of Biblical Literature |location=Atlanta |isbn=978-1-58983-736-2 |pages=160-161}}</ref> cf. [[ankh wedja seneb]].}} was an ancient [[Kingdom of Kush|Kush]]ite king and founder of the [[Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt]], who ruled Egypt from 744–714 BC.<ref>F. Payraudeau, Retour sur la succession Shabaqo-Shabataqo, Nehet 1, 2014, p. 115-127 [https://www.academia.edu/11021678/_Retour_sur_la_succession_Shabaqo-Shabataqo_Nehet_1_2014_p._115-127. online here] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507023737/http://www.academia.edu/11021678/_Retour_sur_la_succession_Shabaqo-Shabataqo_Nehet_1_2014_p._115-127. |date=2018-05-07 }}</ref> He ruled from the city of [[Napata]], located deep in [[Nubia]], modern-day [[Sudan]].