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The Kings of the 21st Dynasty:
High Priests at Thebes - conventional

Herihor.....................1080-1074 BC
Piankh......................1074-1070
Pinedjem..................1070-1032
Masaherta................1054-1046
Menkheperre............1045- 992
Smendes II..................992-990
Pinedjem II..................990-969
Psusennes III...............969-945
Revised

ca. 417-407
ca. 393-373
ca. 350
not determined
not determined
not determined
not determined
ca. 373-350 plus

 Dynasty 21 at Tanis - conventional

Smendes I..............(Nesbanebdjed)[10]...................................1069-1043 BC
Amenemnisu[20]....(Neferkare)................................................1043-1039
Psusennes I............(Pasebkhaenniut I/Akheperre Setepenre)....1039-991
Amenemope...........(Usermare Meryamun Setepenamun)..........993-984
Osorken the Elder...(Aakheperre Setepenre).............................984-978
Siamun...................(Netjerkheperre Setepenamun)...................978-959
Psusennes II...........(Pasebkhaenniut II/Titkheperure)................959-945

Notes & References

[10] This Smendes/Nesubanebdjed is conspicious by his absence archaeologically speaking. Only two monuments without year dates and a canopic jar record his name. `With the advent of Dyn. XXI the copious sources of information available in the previous two dynasties vanish. Administrative papyri and ostraca prove practically non-existent. Votive statuary would seem to disappear almost totally. Graffiti and inscriptions decline to a few badly preserved examples.' Bierbrier, Late New Kingdom, 15 quoted in Graham Hagens, A Critical View of Dead Reckoning from the 21st Dynasty in JARCE, Vol. XXXIII, 1996, p. 153-163.
[20] "No Horus name of Amenemnisu has yet been found. ... For some reason, this king's personal name would not be remembered by future generations, so that by the time of Manetho he would only be recalled by his Ra-name, represented in Greek as Nepherkherys." [.S. Benson, `Pharaoh at War', Chicago, 2003, p. 31.]
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