HISTORY 26

Lecture Twenty-Two:

The Third Intermediate Period

(c. 1069 - 664 BC)

The Later New KingdomDynasties 19 and 20 (1295 -

1069 BC)19th Dynasty: (1295 -

1186)

Rameses ISety IRameses IIMerenptahAmenmessuSety IISaptahQueen Tausret

20th Dynasty: (1186 - 1069)

SethnachtRameses IIIRameses IVRameses VRameses VIRameses VIIRameses VIIIRameses IXRameses XRameses XI

Rameses XI Menmaatra Setepenptah

(1099 - 1069 BC) Thebes plagued

by Libyan gangs, famine, and tomb robberies

Panehsy, Viceroy of Nubia– Overseer of the

Granaries Amenhotep, High

Priest of Amun

The Siege of Medinet Habu

Rameses XI Menmaatra Setepenptah

(1099 - 1069 BC) Panehsy, Viceroy of

Nubia Amenhotep, High

Priest of Amun General Piankh

– Viceroy of Nubia– Vizier– High Priest of Amun

Herihor and Smendes– Thebes (Upper Egypt)

and Tanis (Lower Egypt)

Egypt and the Outside World

Libyans (Libu and Meshwesh), a Nubian, an Asiatic, and an Egyptian

The Third Intermediate Period

Dynasties 21 - 25 (1069 - 664 BC)21st Dynasty: (1069 -

945)

SmendesAmenemnisuPsusennes IAmenemopeOsorkon the ElderSiamunPsusennes II

22nd Dynasty: (945 - 715)

Sheshonq IOsorkon ISheshonq IITakelot IOsorkon IITakelot IISheshonq IIIPimaySheshonq VOsorkon IV

The Libyan PeriodDynasties 21 - 24 (1069 - 715

BC) The Libyans: Non-literate, semi-

nomadic pastoralists– The Egyptians: Literate and sedentary;

formal institutions and monumental construction

The granting of authority to kinsmen and provincial rulers– Promoted decentralization

The north-south divide was, at least in part, an ethnic divide

Kushite Rule of EgyptDynasty 25 (747 - 664 BC)

Capital: Memphis

[Kashta]Piy MenkheperraShabaqo NeferkaraShabitqo DjedkauraTaharqo

KhunefertemraTanutamani Bakara

The Pyramid Tombs at Nuri

Taharqo Khunefertemra(690 - 664 BC)

Ptah: Patron deity of Memphis and creator of the universe

Amun: Patron deity of Thebes and creator of the universe

Taharqo Khunefertemra(690 - 664 BC)

Mentuemhat, Governor of Thebes

(25th/26th Dynasties)

Kush and Assyria(701 - 664 BC)

701: Hezekiah of Judah and Sennecherib of Assyria

671: Invasion of Egypt by Esarhaddon– Taharqo flees and the

rulers of the Nile Delta become Assyrian vassals

667: Assurbanipal defeats Taharqo– Tanutamani returns in

664, but is also defeated– The sack of Thebes

Kush and Assyria(701 - 664 BC)

701: Hezekiah of Judah and Sennecherib of Assyria

671: Invasion of Egypt by Esarhaddon– Taharqo flees and the

rulers of the Nile Delta become Assyrian vassals

667: Assurbanipal defeats Taharqo– Tanutamani returns in

664, but is also defeated– The sack of Thebes

Psamtek I Wahibra(664 - 610 BC)

26th Dynasty: (664 - 525)

[Nekau I of Sais]Psamtek I WahibraNekau II WehemibraPsamtek II NeferibraApries HaaibraAhmose II [Amasis]

KhnemibraPsamtek III Ankhkaenra