Editing Shebitku (section)

==Identification with Herodotus' Sethos==
The Greek historian [[Herodotus]] in his ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]'' (book II, chapter 141) writes of a [[High Priest of Ptah]] named Sethos ({{langx|grc|Σεθῶν}} ''Sethon'') who became pharaoh and defeated the Assyrians with divine intervention. This name is probably a corruption of Shebitku.<ref>Strassler, Robert B. (ed.), ''The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories'' (Anchor, 2007), p. 182.</ref><ref>Lloyd, Alan B., Commentary on Book II, in ''A Commentary on Herodotus, Books I–IV'' (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 237.</ref> Herodotus' account was the inspiration for the 18th-century fantasy novel ''[[Life of Sethos]]'', which has been influential among [[Afrocentrism|Afrocentrists]].