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Petuabastis

Petuabastis, a  name  given  to  several  kings  of  the Third  Intermediate Period and Late period, meaning "gift of Bast."

Petuabastis I:

Petuabastis I (r. 813-C.773 BCE)  first king of the twenty-third  (Tanite or Libyan) dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period. The  third-century BCE Egyptian historian Manetho called the dynasty  Tanite, pinpointing the city of Tanis, in the eastern Nile Delta, as  the place of family origin (not its capital), implying that it was an  offshoot of the twenty-second  dynasty.  The  relationship  of  Petuabastis I  to Sheshonq III is unknown, although they may have been brothers. The  seat  of  the twenty-third  dynasty,  however,  is  not  certain.  Its  last ruler, luput II, was named after Petuabastis I's coregent luput I,  who reigned at Leontopolis (Tell Moqdam) as Piya's victory stela  indicates;  the  burial  of  a  Queen  Kama(ma),  mother  of  Osorkon  III(?), was found at Tell Moqdam. Petuabastis I and his entire line  probably reigned at Tell Moqdam, other monuments of theirs are  known  from  the Nile Delta  and  Memphis and  not  only  from  Thebes,  where  it  has  been  suggested  that  the  dynasty  may  have  reigned. In his fifteenth and sixteenth years of reign, Petuabastis I  had  a  short-lived  co-regent,  luput  I.  The  separate  regime  of  Petuabastis  I  enabled  the  rebellious  Thebans  to  withdraw  recognition of the twenty-second dynasty kings in favor of the new  line.

Petuabastis II:

This  local  king  in  Tanis  is  known  from  inscriptions at Tanis, an unfinished statue at Memphis, and blocks  at the museum in Copenhagen. Petuabastis II was encountered in Tanis by  Assurbanipal,  king  of  Assyria,  in  667-666  BCE,  and  dethroned  by  him  in  665  BCE.  He  recurred  in  later  Egyptian  tradition  in  four  of  six  Demotic  tales  in  the  Inaros-Petuabastis  Cycle. The known manuscripts are of Greco-Roman date; one of  them also names Esarhaddon of Assyria.

Petuabastis III:

A  minor  rebel  king  of  the First Persian Occupation,  or  twenty-seventh  dynasty,  Late  period,  Se-heribre  Petuabastis III had a reign of uncertain date. He may have been in  power as early as the end of the reign of either Cambyses, who  ruled from 525 to 522 BCE, or Darius I, who ruled from 521 to 486  BCE.

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