REL 328: History and Culture of the Ancient Near East.                                                                                                         RJDKnauth

Egyptian Post-Empire Period: Third Intermediate (21-25: 1069-664) and Saite (26: 664-525) Dynasties

 

                Napata                    Thebes   Herakleopolis      Memphis         Sais              Leontopolis           Bubastis                Tanis (=Nubia/Kush/Sudan)          (upper Egypt = South)       (middle)         (delta)                (delta)                    (delta)                  (delta)

 

1069                                       (Theban                                                                                                                       Dynasty 21         

                                                   priests)                                                                                                                                         Smendes

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Amenemopet

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                   Siamun (->Solomon)

 

945                                                                                                                                                                         Dynasty 22 (Libyan)à

Sheshonq (invades S-P) Osorkon

                                                                                                                                                                                                “”           

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                “”

870                                                                                                               “chiefs

                                                                                                                           of

                                                                                                                        Libu”

                                                                                                                                                                                       Takelot  -- civil war

                                                                                                                                                                                  

818                                                                                                                                    Dynasty 23 (Libyan)    Sheshonq

                                                                                                                                                (related to Dyn 22)    

                                                                                                                                                Pedubast                   

                                                                                                                                                Sheshonq

ca 780    Dynasty 25                                                                                                            Osorkon                      Pimay

            (Nubian/Kushite)  (Thebes & Herakleopolis                                                                                              Sheshonq

                Alara                      controlled by Dyn 23)                                                         Takelot

               Kashta            (Thebes         

                                        controlled                                                                                      Rudamun

                                         by Dyn 25)                                                                                   Iuput                            Osorkon

727                                                                                                            Dynasty 24         Sheshonq

                Piye                                                               (M:Dyn 24) Tefnakht, Bakenrenef

715      Invasion, conquest ---------------------------Dynasty 25---------------------------------------------------------------------

                                                                                         Shabako

                                                                                         Shebitku

 

674                             Assyrian Invasions (Essarhaddon)          

                                                                                  Taharqa                     Necho I (Assyrian appointee)

664                               Assyrian Conquest (Ashurbanipal)           Dynasty 26 (Saite)

-----------------------------------------------------------[Tantamani?]--Psammetichus-------------------------------------------------

Saite Period                  (Thebes

                                         controlled

         by Dyn 26)                                                                  

 

612  Babylonian Conquest of Assyria                                                                      Necho II  (-> killed Josiah of Judah, built canal)

                                                                                                                   Psammetichus II

                                                                                                                        Apries

 

                                                                                                                        Amasis  (army general – usurper)

 

538     Persian Conquest of Babylon

525     Persian Conquest of Egypt ----------------------------------Psammetichus III------------------------------------------------