WI: Phoenician Egypt?

Another question asked in quick succession from me. Now, i want to ask again, what if Phoenicia conquers Egypt and unites it? No, this is not Carthaginian involved, rather Phoenicia WITHOUT Carthage involved in here. Based on this, i have a POD (maybe ASB-ish and might well be not plausible) that instead of estlabishing Carthage, i had Queen Dido when making a journey to Carthage, i had her end up in Egypt, where she tries to make a settlement. She failed to do so but began to make a play for power in there. She allied herself with the Osorkon B in the south and she declared herself Pharaoh. With the help of Trojan exiles led by Aeneas she managed to successfully seize 22nd dynasty, and killed Shoshenq III while Osorkon III ended his rivals Takelot II and Pedubast I (both are allies with Shoshenq III). Now with all she became a Pharaoh, the first one that is descended from Phoenicians. Her lover Aeneas would later invade the 23rd dynasty and become pharaoh in the Upper Egypt. Both later would be married and they have a child which united both lower Egypt and upper Egypt under one person. Dido didn't commit suicide in this universe.
What do you think? I think this POD may not be possible since it looks ASB to me as far as i know but if it did, how it would change the world? I will look for the answers.
 
Another question asked in quick succession from me. Now, i want to ask again, what if Phoenicia conquers Egypt and unites it? No, this is not Carthaginian involved, rather Phoenicia WITHOUT Carthage involved in here. Based on this, i have a POD (maybe ASB-ish and might well be not plausible) that instead of estlabishing Carthage, i had Queen Dido when making a journey to Carthage, i had her end up in Egypt, where she tries to make a settlement. She failed to do so but began to make a play for power in there. She allied herself with the Osorkon B in the south and she declared herself Pharaoh. With the help of Trojan exiles led by Aeneas she managed to successfully seize 22nd dynasty, and killed Shoshenq III while Osorkon III ended his rivals Takelot II and Pedubast I (both are allies with Shoshenq III). Now with all she became a Pharaoh, the first one that is descended from Phoenicians. Her lover Aeneas would later invade the 23rd dynasty and become pharaoh in the Upper Egypt. Both later would be married and they have a child which united both lower Egypt and upper Egypt under one person. Dido didn't commit suicide in this universe.
What do you think? I think this POD may not be possible since it looks ASB to me as far as i know but if it did, how it would change the world? I will look for the answers.

Your problem here is demographics and sheer numbers. Dido just wouldn't have the numbers.

Now, if instead she was settling a town or colony (lets just use OTL Alexandria for this), then the Nilotic Phoenicians could become very powerful, as they could negotiate more or less complete domination of Egyptian consumption of Mediterranean Trade, or at least cut the Phoenicians at Home out of the loop.

I could see them later on expanding and settling in small merchant communities up and down the Nile, and perhaps on Oases too, but I think it is more likely that they'd end up merging with the Egyptians, with Phoenicians just becoming a byword for traders and merchants, and "Those who go overseas". It wouldn't surprise me that without the Egyptian Kemetic faith, they'd be more inclined to go overseas and act as agents for Egypt. Essentially being the main group that colonised and enforced Egyptian rule abroad. (I could certainly see them adapting the Egyptian Pantheon for themselves over time.)

Now that sort of extension or symbiotic/parasitic relationship with the Egyptians could work for a long time, and could well lead to that community becoming in charge in all but name - but Pharaoh would have to be quite a bit later, after some sort of civil war, where the Nomes go at each other, but the Phoenicians stick together and clean up house, leading to a marriage between (most likely) an Egypto-Phoenician Pharaoh and a daughter of the last dynasty.
 
I was going to say "WTF?!" but then @RogueTraderEnthusiast came up with something intriguing. Problem is, would they be allowed to form a colony in such a strategic position?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naucratis

If the Greeks could, why not the Nilotic Phoenicians?

I mean, it could be a genuine limitation - no travelling along the Nile, but you have access to this Lake. At which point the city is perfectly placed to trade from the coast, and onto the lake (perhaps later on building a canal).

As far as I can tell nobody had built on that site beforehand. So why not? If they're paying taxes and not making trouble, I can't see any reason Pharaoh would complain.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naucratis

If the Greeks could, why not the Nilotic Phoenicians?

I mean, it could be a genuine limitation - no travelling along the Nile, but you have access to this Lake. At which point the city is perfectly placed to trade from the coast, and onto the lake (perhaps later on building a canal).

As far as I can tell nobody had built on that site beforehand. So why not? If they're paying taxes and not making trouble, I can't see any reason Pharaoh would complain.
Naucratis was established after Egypt had temporarily been conquered by Assyrians. I know foreign conquests and dynasties were something Egypt had had plenty of, but it had always been clear that Egypt would have been the heart and centre of the new Empire - until the Assyrians came. So i believe the late, Saitic rulers were open to many changes like few Egyptian rulers before them in order to catch up, avert such a disaster in the future etc. By the time of Dido and the 22nd dynasty, I'm not so sure foreigners would have been allowed to establish a colony just there...
 
Naucratis was established after Egypt had temporarily been conquered by Assyrians. I know foreign conquests and dynasties were something Egypt had had plenty of, but it had always been clear that Egypt would have been the heart and centre of the new Empire - until the Assyrians came. So i believe the late, Saitic rulers were open to many changes like few Egyptian rulers before them in order to catch up, avert such a disaster in the future etc. By the time of Dido and the 22nd dynasty, I'm not so sure foreigners would have been allowed to establish a colony just there...

I've typically been led to believe that Egypt was pretty open to people moving in peacefully, as it would mean they were under Egyptian rule. Especially merchants.

However, short of an example of such a scenario being rejected beforehand, I'm not sure I'd agree with your point. Heck, Naucratis was post-Assyrian, but also post-Hyksos and post-Kush. It was also Post-Sea Peoples, which I know at least one origin theory considers them as foreign settlers that rebelled. (Whether that is true or not isn't relevant to this I feel, considering it was the collapse.)

Now, it does depend on how it is described. We'd probably call it a colony. But otherwise it'd be an Egyptian city, with Dido either acting as part of the community, or in a happy situation, a Nomarch, or some other role (perhaps Representative of the Phoenicians in Egypt.) Not some sort of formal vassal state. I think that would be rejected out of hand.
 
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