Wahibre Psamtik I, aka Psammeticus or Psammetichus, 664-610 BC. King of the 26th Dynasty of Egypt. On the last day of a feast in Hephaestus temple the high priest brought out the golden phials for the libation, but counted wrongly and gave out eleven to the twelve kings therein assembled, Psammetichus who had not received a phial, removed his bronze helmet and poured the libation into it. The other kings remembering that the oracle had promised the sovereignty of all Egypt to whosoever should pour libations from a vessel of bronze exiled Psammetichus to the Nile delta marshes. From Cassell's Universal History, published 1888.

Wahibre Psamtik I, aka Psammeticus or Psammetichus, 664-610 BC. King of the 26th Dynasty of Egypt. On the last day of a feast in Hephaestus temple the high priest brought out the golden phials for the libation, but counted wrongly and gave out eleven to the twelve kings therein assembled, Psammetichus who had not received a phial, removed his bronze helmet and poured the libation into it. The other kings remembering that the oracle had promised the sovereignty of all Egypt to whosoever should pour libations from a vessel of bronze exiled Psammetichus to the Nile delta marshes. From Cassell's Universal History, published 1888.

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