Third Intermediate Period
Iuput I / Shoshenq IV (concurrent line)
23rd Dynasty (Libyan) · 818-715 BCE
Open full-size illustration →Source: Shaw, Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (2000)
Background
This entry covers one of the murkiest corners of the Libyan Period succession puzzle: the supposed co-regency of Iuput I with Pedubast I now looks doubtful to most specialists, and this page's own paired name reflects an older numbering scheme that Egyptology has since revised. Additional detail: UCL Digital Egypt.
Dynastic chronology: Shaw, Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (2000)
Full profile
The co-ruler in Thebes
Iuput I was the son of Pedubast I. When his father successfully seized Thebes for a second time, he elevated Iuput I to the position of co-ruler. The timeline of his exact reign is heavily disputed, but his faction was ultimately defeated and expelled from Thebes by Prince Osorkon.
A co-regency now in doubt
The case for Iuput I ruling alongside his father rested on a single Nile flood-level inscription that equated one of Pedubast's regnal years with one of Iuput's, a coincidence most specialists no longer consider strong enough evidence for an actual joint reign. Separately, this page's title preserves an older label, "Shoshenq IV," for a Theban-based rival king from this same turbulent period; Egyptologists have since renumbered that particular king as Shoshenq VI, since he ruled only in Upper Egypt and was never part of the Tanis-based royal line that the earlier numbering scheme assumed. The tangle of overlapping, similarly named rival kings from this era remains one of the hardest stretches of Egyptian chronology to pin down with confidence.
Sources for this profile
- Shaw, I. (Ed.). (2000). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press.
- Dodson, A., & Hilton, D. (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson.
- Leprohon, R. J. (2013). The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary. Society of Biblical Literature.
- UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. Chronology. UCLA.
- University College London. Digital Egypt for Universities.
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