Beiträge zur Geschichte der Dritten Zwischenzeit

Abstract

In this short Beitrage three points relevant to the history of the Third Intermediate Period are presented.1. The genealogical data of the family of the army scribe Nespaqashuty written on a fragmentary block statue from Karnak have hitherto been misunderstood. The owner of the statue is not Nespaqashuty II , who lived in the time of Siamun, but a grandson of Amenemone I . The statue may have been dedicated by his son Ankhefenkhons during the time of Osorkon II .2. According to stela Cairo JE 66285, the Libyan chief and later king Shoshenq I had a statue of his father Nimlot A erected in the temple of Abydos. The offering established for this statue is written with a hieroglyph simply to be read ḥtp “offering,” not ẖntj “statue” or qnyt “portable image” as proposed before.3. Some aspects of the chronological and political relations between Bocchoris and Shabako and their predecessors Tefnakhte and Piankhy are considered as well as the supposed reason for the attack on Bocchoris by “Sabakon.”