Partisan Royal Epithets in the Late Third Intermediate Period and the Dynastic Affiliations of Pedubast I and Iuput II *

Abstract

The use of the epithets ‘son of Isis’ and ‘son of Bastet’ in royal names corresponds closely to the Theban Twenty-third and late Twenty-second Dynasties respectively, suggesting that the epithets may have indicated dynastic affiliation. These epithets were occasionally used outside of the Theban Twenty-third and late Twenty-second Dynasties, but these occurrences can be understood as appropriations or reinterpretations rather than as incompatible exceptions. If these epithets did indeed indicate dynastic affiliation during the Theban Twenty-third and late Twenty-second Dynasties, then both Pedubast I and Iuput II should be associated with the Twenty-second Dynasty, since both used the epithet ‘son of Bastet’.