Editing Piye (section)

==Family==
{{see also|Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt family tree}}
Piye was the son of [[Kashta]] and [[Pebatjma]]. He is known to have had three or four wives. [[Abar (queen)|Abar]] was the mother of his successor [[Taharqa]]. Further wives are [[Tabiry]], Peksater and probably [[Khensa]].<ref name="DH">Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. {{ISBN|0-500-05128-3}}</ref>

Piye is known to have had several children. He was the father of:
* King [[Shebitku]]. Said to be a son of Piye,<ref name="ReferenceA">Kitchen, Kenneth A. The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, 1100-650 B.C. (Book & Supplement) Aris & Phillips. 1986 {{ISBN|978-0-85668-298-8}}</ref> or alternatively a brother of Piye.<ref name="DH"/><ref name="RM"/>
* King [[Taharqa]]. Son of Queen [[Abar (Queen)|Abar]]. He would take the throne after his uncle [[Shabaka]] and another male relative Shebitku.<ref name="DH"/>
* [[God's Wife of Amun]] [[Shepenwepet II]]. Installed in Thebes during the reign of her brother Taharqa.<ref name="DH"/>
* [[Qalhata]], wife of King [[Shabaka]], she was the mother of king [[Tanutamun]] and probably of King [[Shabataka]] as well.<ref name="DH"/>
* [[Tabekenamun]] married her brother [[Taharqa]].<ref name="DH"/>
* [[Naparaye]] married her brother [[Taharqa]].<ref name="DH"/>
* [[Takahatenamun]] married her brother [[Taharqa]].<ref name="DH"/>
* [[Arty (queen)|Arty]], married king [[Shebitku]].<ref name="DH"/>
* Har. Known from an offering table of his daughter Wadjrenes from Thebes ([[TT34]]).<ref name="DH"/>
* Khaliut, Governor of Kanad according to a stela found at Barkal.<ref name="DH"/>
* Princess Mutirdis, Chief Prophet of Hathor and Mut in Thebes and daughter of Piye according to [[Robert Morkot|Morkot]].<ref name="RM">Morkot, Robert G., The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers, The Rubicon Press, 2000, {{ISBN|0-948695-24-2}}</ref> Thought to be a daughter of a local ruler named Menkheperre Khmuny from Hermopolis by [[Kenneth Kitchen|Kitchen]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/>