Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

bw,xht. DYNASTIES XXIII. AND XXIV. 385

DYNASTY XXIII., OF TANIS.

Under this title, the priest Manetho, in his Book of
the Kings, sets down the reigns of the three kings :—

Peta-se-Bast, with 40 years ;
Uasaeken III., with 9 years ;
Psamus, with 10 years.

All three disappear in the struggle waged against
■kgypt, with varying success, by Ethiopia from the South
and Assyria from the North. Hence their names emerge
but occasionally in the historical records of this time.
Judging from the elements contained in their titles, Peta-
se-Bast seems to have had his royal seat in Bubastis,
Uasarken in Thebes or Tanis, Psamus in Memphis. The
•last we shall have to recognise again under his Assyrian
frame of Is-pi-ma-tu, as a contemporary of King Taha-
raqa about 700 B.C.

DYNASTY XXIV.

Bak-en-ean-p, the Bocchoris of Manetho, stands alone
111 this dynasty, and appears to have belonged to a
dumber of petty kings who formed a connection with
the younger contemporaries of Taharaqa. The Ethio-
Plan tradition says that he was taken prisoner by
Shabakh and burnt alive.

Mariette has recognised in this king the Uah-ka-Ba

-VK-Esr-KAN-F, whose Apis-sarcophagus (of the 6th year

the king) was placed in the same chamber of the

erapeum, in which the deceased Apis of the 37th year

° King Shashanq IV. was deposited. Here then we

ave brought to light a new connection in time between

bocchoris and Shashanq IV.

fhis same Bak-en-ran-f appears again in the As-
ywan list of the Egyptian petty kings, under the name

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