Editing Maximinus Daza (section)

==Pharaoh of Egypt==
[[image:Maximinus_Daza_hieroglyphics_ver_1.png|thumb|Cartouche of Maximinus Daza, ''Kaisaros Oualerios Mak(sim)inos '']]
As Christianity continued to spread in Egypt, the title of [[Pharaoh]] was increasingly incompatible with the new religious movements. Maximinus's status as a non-Christian accorded the priests of Egypt an opportunity to style him as Pharaoh, in the same manner that other foreign rulers of Egypt had been styled before. That said, the Roman emperors themselves mostly ignored the status accorded to them by the Egyptians; and their role as god-kings was only ever acknowledged domestically by the Egyptians themselves.<ref name=Oneill> O'Neill, Sean J. (2011), "The Emperor as Pharaoh: Provincial Dynamics and Visual Representations of Imperial Authority in Roman Egypt, 30 B.C. - A.D. 69", Dissertions of the University of Cincinnati</ref> Maximinus would prove to be the last person afforded the traditional titulature of Pharaoh – no Christian Roman/Byzantine emperor, nor Islamic or modern leader, has revived the title since.<ref name= Oneill /> As the last monarch to employ traditional pharaonic titulature, Maximinus' death can be seen as marking the end of a 3,400-year-old office.