more or less immediately after his flight to Egypt. Now it appears...certain that Yamani was only turned over to the Assyrians a couple of years later (under Shebitku instead). Identification with Herodotus' Sethos The Greek historian Herodotus in his Histories (book II, chapter 141) writes of a High Priest of Ptah named Sethos ( Sethon) who became pharaoh and defeated the Assyrians with divine intervention. This name is probably a corruption of Shebitku. Herodotus' account was the inspiration for the 18th-century fantasy novel Life of Sethos, which has been influential among Afrocentrists. References Further reading Robert Morkot, The Black Pharaohs: Egypt's Nubian Rulers, The Rubicon Press, 2000. 705 BC deaths 8th-century BC Pharaohs 8th-century BC monarchs of Kush Kingdom of Kush Pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt Year of birth unknown