ABSTRACT
As foreshadowed by the division of authority within Egypt and loss of Egyptian control abroad in Asia and in Kush, and as measured in comparison with the magnificent monuments of the Old, Middle, and New kingdoms, the period that ensued in Egyptian history was relatively more confused and less impressive. It thus constitutes a Third Intermediate Period. In the time of the Twenty-second Dynasty, the situation in Egypt was essentially feudal, with many local dynasts. At Karnak, virtually no work had been done on the great temple of Amun since the close of the Nineteenth Dynasty, since the Tanite kings of the Twentieth Dynasty and the Theban high priests of the Twenty-first Dynasty had given their attention rather to the temple of Khonsu. Manetho describes the Twenty-third Dynasty as consisting of four Tanite kings—Petubates, Osorcho, Psammus, and Zet. In the Twenty-fourth Dynasty, Manetho names only the Saite king Bochchoris.
