Note 481 — Chapter IV · Egypt
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Strabo XIII. 590: see Mallet, Prem. Étab. p. 48, n. 1. Later in his reign Psamtek is said by Diodorus (I. 67) to have “made an alliance with the Athenians and some of the other Greeks”; but here we may follow Mallet (ib. p. 97; cp. pp. 212, 284) and suspect a reflexion backwards of events of the time of Psammetichus the Libyan (circ. 445 B.C.), who took part in the uprising against Persia in which Egypt received much help from Athens (Mallet, ib. p. 149, n. 3). On the very few examples from Naukratis of late Proto-Attic vases (Attic of about 600 B.C.) see Prinz, Funde aus Naukratis, pp. 75 f.