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Tadibast III
Divine mother, King's wife
Small aegis with the name of Tadibast and her son Osorkon, in the Louvre
Spouse	possibly Shoshenq V
Issue	Osorkon IV
Egyptian name	ḥmt-nswt Tȝ-di-Bȝstt King's wife Tadibast(et)
Dynasty	possibly 22nd Dynasty
Religion	Ancient Egyptian religion

Tadibast (or Tadibastet) III was an ancient Egyptian queen consort during the late Third Intermediate Period, around the second half of the 8th century BCE.

Identification

She is known only by an electrum aegis of Sekhmet from Bubastis and now on display at the Louvre. On the aegis Tadibast is called mwt-nTr ḥmt-nswt Tȝ-di-Bȝstt ˁnḫ-ti ("Divine mother, King's wife Tadibast(et), may she live"). Next to this inscription, another one simply reports "Son of Ra, Osorkon, forever", thus a pharaoh named Osorkon who is believed to have been her son.
Several kings named Osorkon are known, but the only one among these whose mother's name was still unknown is Osorkon IV, and it is generally assumed now that Tadibast III was indeed his mother.

On this basis, Tadibast's royal husband could have been king Shoshenq V of the 22nd Dynasty who was Osorkon IV's purported father and predecessor, but this identification is somewhat complicated due to the existence of the shadowy king Pedubast II whose reign is sometimes placed between Shoshenq V and Osorkon IV.

References

1. ^ Jocelyne Berlandini, Petits monuments royaux de la XXIe à la XXVe dynastie, in Hommages a Serge Sauneron: 1927–1976, vol. 1, 1979, Cairo, Imprimerie de l'Institut d'Archeologie Orientale, pp. 92–98
2. ^ Kenneth Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC), 1996, Aris & Phillips Limited, Warminster, ISBN 0-85668-298-5, § 92
3. Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p. 222

• 8th-century BC Egyptian women
• Queens consort of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt
• 8th-century BC Egyptian people