# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/psamtik-i
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:43.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/psamtik-i"
name: "Psamtik I"
slug: "psamtik-i"
description: "The pharaoh who built a dynasty out of vassalage. Psamtik I started as an Assyrian puppet in the Nile delta and ended ruling a reunified Egypt — timing his independence to the moment his overlords began to crack."
tagline: "First egyptian pharaoh of the 26th dynasty"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Egypte_louvre_038.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
deathDate: "-610"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.13
  momentum:             1.846884604638167
  historical:           22.30528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "politicians"
  - name: "Founder"
    slug: "founder"
  - name: "Founders"
    slug: "founders"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Psamtik%20I"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بسماتيك الاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Псамтик I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Psammètic I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Псамметих I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Psammetich I."
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Psamético I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Psametiko I.a"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پسامتیک یکم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Psametik I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Psammétique Ier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "פסמתיך הראשון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psamtik_I."
    title: "Psamtik I."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._Pszammetik"
    title: "I. Pszammetik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psamtik_I"
    title: "Psamtik I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Psammetico I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "プサムテク1世"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ფსამეტიქ I"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Psamtik I"
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    title: "بسماتيك الأول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Wahibre Psamtik I took the throne of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty in 664 BCE, installed in the delta city of Sais by Ashurbanipal of the Neo-Assyrian Empire to challenge the Kushite pharaohs of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. He ruled under Assyrian oversight at first, a local administrator with a royal title. But as Assyrian power frayed across its overextended empire, Psamtik maneuvered into autonomy — consolidating control, pushing out the Kushites, and reclaiming sovereignty without a direct break. By the time he died in 610 BCE, he had turned a borrowed throne into the foundation of the Saite period, Egypt's last flare of native rule before the Persians arrived.