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Third Intermediate Period: rulers and royal family

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Ahhotep II

Ahhotep II is the conventional name for a queen of Egypt's Seventeenth Dynasty, hypothetically a wife of King Kamose, whose gilded coffin was found at Thebes in 1859.

Amenemnisu

Amenemnisu, also known as Amenemnesu or Neferkare Amenemnisu, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty at Tanis in the early Third Intermediate Period, reigning about 1044–1040 BC and known from only a few objects.

Amenemope (pharaoh)

Amenemope, Hellenised as Amenophthis, was the fourth pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty, ruling from Tanis around 1001–992 BC; his intact tomb was found there in April 1940.

Amenirdis I

Amenirdis I was a Kushite princess of Egypt's Twenty-fifth Dynasty, daughter of King Kashta, who held the powerful office of God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, legitimizing Kushite rule there.

Amenirdis II

Amenirdis II was a Kushite princess of Egypt's 25th Dynasty, daughter of the pharaoh Taharqa, adopted as heir to the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes.

Bakenranef

Bakenranef, also known as Bakenrenef or Greek Bocchoris, was the second and last king of Egypt's 24th Dynasty at Sais, son of Tefnakhte, proverbial as a lawgiver.

Duathathor-Henuttawy

Duathathor-Henuttawy, also written Henettawy, was an Egyptian royal woman of the early Twenty-first Dynasty, wife of the high priest Pinedjem I and mother of King Psusennes I.

Harsiese A

Harsiese A, also rendered Horsiese, was a king at Thebes in southern Egypt in the mid-ninth century BC, ruling alongside Osorkon II and buried at Medinet Habu.

Henuttawy (God's Wife of Amun)

Henuttawy was a 21st Dynasty priestess at Thebes who served as Divine Adoratrice of Amun and is listed as a God's Wife, probably a daughter of Pinedjem II.

Herihor

Herihor was High Priest of Amun at Karnak at the end of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, who accumulated the offices of vizier, viceroy of Nubia, and army commander before depicting himself as king.

Ini (pharaoh)

Ini, also written Iny or Inii, was a ruler of Thebes in ancient Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, reigning about 739–734 BC under the throne name Menkheperre.

Iuput II

Iuput II, throne name Usermaatre, was a king of Egypt's Twenty-third Dynasty who ruled the Nile Delta and submitted to the Kushite king Piye about 728 BC.

Kapes

Kapes was a royal woman of ancient Egypt's 22nd Dynasty in the 9th century BC, known as the mother of King Osorkon II and attested chiefly through his monuments.

Karimala

Karimala, also read Katimala, was a queen of Nubia of the Twenty-First Dynasty, around the eleventh to tenth centuries BC, who took control of Lower Nubia and is known from a single inscription at Semna.

Karomama I

Karomama I was a Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Osorkon II of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, known from a Karnak stela and reliefs at Bubastis in the 9th century BC.

Karomama II

Karomama II was a queen of ancient Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, the wife of King Takelot II and mother of Osorkon, High Priest of Amun, around 850 BC.

Maatkare

Maatkare Mutemhat was a God's Wife of Amun and Divine Adoratrice at Thebes during the 21st Dynasty, eldest daughter of King Pinedjem I, whose mummy was found in 1881.

Maatkare B

Maatkare B, also written Maatkara, was a royal woman of Egypt's Twenty-first Dynasty, a daughter of Psusennes II who married Osorkon and bore his heir, Shoshenq Q.

Maatkheperre Shoshenq

Maatkheperre Shoshenq, labeled Shoshenq IIc, is a poorly attested early pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-second (Libyan) Dynasty, known from a usurped statuette and a few inscriptions, his very existence as a separate king disputed.

Malaqaye

Malaqaye, also spelled Malakaye, was a queen of the Kushite royal house of the Napatan period, known from a gilded silver funerary mask found at Nuri, Pyramid 59, in Sudan.

Mehytenweskhet

Mehytenweskhet, also known as Mehet-en-usekhet, was a queen of Egypt's 26th Dynasty, wife of Pharaoh Psamtik I and mother of his successor Necho II and of Nitocris I, God's Wife of Amun.

Nauny

Nauny, also written Nany or Naun, was a royal woman of Egypt's early 21st Dynasty, probably a daughter of Painedjem I, buried around 1050 BCE at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes.

Nimlot of Hermopolis

Nimlot of Hermopolis, also rendered Namlot, was a local king of Hermopolis in Middle Egypt in the late eighth century BC, who resisted and then submitted to Piye.

Nodjmet

Nodjmet, also written Nedjmet, was a high-ranking Theban noblewoman of the late Twentieth Dynasty, traditionally the wife of Herihor, the High Priest of Amun who took royal titles.

Osorkon I

Osorkon I, also known as Sekhemkheperre Osorkon, was the second king of Egypt's Libyan Bubastite 22nd Dynasty and son of Shoshenq I, reigning around 924–889 BC.

Osorkon II

Osorkon II, also known as Usermaatre Osorkon, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-second Dynasty who reigned from about 874 to 837 BC and built the Sed-festival gateway at Bubastis.

Osorkon IV

Osorkon IV was the last king of Egypt's Twenty-second Dynasty, reigning about 730 to 715 BC over Bubastis and Tanis, and may be the Shilkanni of Assyrian records.

Osorkon the Elder

Osorkon the Elder, throne name Aakheperre and known as Osochor, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 21st Dynasty of Libyan origin in the early 10th century BC.

Pami

Pami, also known as Pamay, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty during the Third Intermediate Period, ruling from Tanis about 785–774 BC and succeeded by his son Shoshenq V.

Pedubast I

Pedubast I, whose Manethonian form is Petubastis, was a king of ancient Egypt's Twenty-third Dynasty who ruled from Thebes in parallel with Shoshenq III of Tanis.