Petubastis II

Petubastis II
Throne name	User-maat-Re Setep-en-Amun Wsr-m3ˁt-Rˁ Stp-n-Jmn Rich in Maat , a Re , chosen by Amun
Proper name	MeriAmun Padibastet Sabastet Meri Amun Pa di bastet Sa bastet Mrj-Jmn P3 dj-B3stt S3-B3stt Loved by Amun, ..., son of Bastet

Petubastis II. , Also Padibastet II. , Ruled according to Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton at least in the years around 743 to 733 BC. BC ( third intermediate period ) as ruler of Tanis . Jürgen von Beckerath locates this Petubastis II in the reign of Pije , the second king of the 25th dynasty , and suggests a reign from around 736 to 731 BC. BC before. The exact length of the reign of Petubastis II is not certain.

Possibly Petubastis II was the son of Auput II and Gaufürst in Athribis , since in the list of princes of Pije next to Osorkon IV and Bakennefi II a Padiaset is named as "Prince of Athribis". Jürgen von Beckerath refers to the custom that the lower Egyptian princes carried the addition of son of Bastet ( sa-Bastet ) instead of the Upper Egyptian form of the name Son of Isis ( sa-aset ) .

In the demotic story The battle for the armor of Inaros is reported by Inaros I , who as the appointed prince of Athribis genealogically “the son of Bakennefi III. and grandson of Petubastis ”.

See also

• Local Royalty of the Third Intermediate Period

literature

• Jürgen von Beckerath : The relationship between the 22nd dynasty and the 23rd dynasty . In: Nicole Cloth: It will be put down as a document - Festschrift for Hartwig Altenmüller on his 65th birthday . Buske, Hamburg 2003. ISBN 3-87548-341-3 , pp. 31-35.
• Jürgen von Beckerath: Handbook of the Egyptian king names (= Munich Egyptological studies. Vol. 49). 2nd improved and expanded edition, von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2591-6 , pp. 212-213.
• Aidan Dodson, Dyan Hilton: The complete royal families of Ancient Egypt . Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , pp. 210-223.
• Karl Jansen-Winkeln : The Chronology of the Third Intermediate Period: Dyns 22-24. In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-11385-5 , pp. 234-264 ( online ).
• Kenneth Anderson Kitchen : The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt: (1100-650 BC) . Aris & Phillips, 1996, ISBN 0-85668-298-5 .
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs . Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 188 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ largely hieroglyphs and inscriptions according to von Beckerath: Handbuch der Ägyptischen Könignames. P. 201

predecessor	Office	successor
Scheschonq V.	Pharaoh of Lower Egypt 23rd Dynasty	Osorkon IV.