An "ineffectual" ruler, Nepherites II became pharaoh of Egypt in 380 BC after the death of his father
Hakor (393–380 BC) and was deposed and likely killed by the rebel prince Nakhtnebef of
Sebennytos – the future
Nectanebo I, an Egyptian military officer, after ruling Egypt for only 4 months, from June to September 380 BC. of Pharaoh
Hakor, Nepherites II's father.
Louvre,
Paris. King Hakor had already to face, towards the end of his reign, frequent riots likely inspired by Nectanebo. Pharaoh Nectanebo I, who founded the
Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt after overthrowing Nepherites II, reigned until his death in 360 BC and represented the third
Delta family to assume the rule of the country in just two decades: Nectanebo I commissioned in
Hermopolis: The
Greek historian Theopompus (c. 380–315 BC) links Nepherites II's end with the war led by King
Evagoras I of
Salamis on
Cyprus against Persia. In a desperate attempt to strengthen his own position, Nepherites II proclaimed himself
Wehem Mesut, "Repetitor Of Births" (i.e. Founder of a new era), "like few other sovereigns of the past of very different stature", such as
Amenemhat I and
Seti I. His
nomen or birth name, meaning "The Great Ones prosper", does not appear on any monument, and it is only attested in
Manetho's
Aegyptiaca and in the 3rd century BC
Demotic Chronicle. ==References==