Another son of Shashanq I, named =Uasarken=, or =Osorkon I=, became king of Egypt, and married Tasheṭ-Khensu, and Maāt-ka-Rā, the daughter of Pasebkhānut II, the last of the Tanite kings of the XXIst dynasty. The son of Osorkon I and Maāt-ka-Rā was called Shashanq, and was made high priest of Ȧmen; he dedicated to the god the fine quartzite =statue of Ḥāpi=, the Nile-god, exhibited in the Southern Egyptian Gallery, Bay 22, No. =766=. Osorkon I was succeeded by =Thekeleth I=, who was succeeded by =Osorkon II=, famous for the works which he carried out in the Temple of Bast, the great goddess of Bubastis, the =Pibeseth= of the Bible. From this site came many important monuments, among which may be mentioned: The massive granite =Hathor-headed capital= of a pillar (see =Plate XLII=; Bay 16, No. =768=); and the slabs sculptured with figures of Osorkon II and Bast, and figures of Osorkon II and his =Queen Karāmā= (Bay 23, No. =769=). Osorkon II perpetuated the names of the great kings his predecessors, and accordingly we find on granite slabs from his temple the names of =Khufu=, =Khāfrā=, etc., and figures of =Ȧmen-ḥetep II=, =Seti I=, etc. (Bay 23, Nos. =771-773=). Like Rameses II, Mer-en-Ptaḥ, and other kings, Osorkon II caused his name to be cut upon monuments of other kings, _e.g._, the statue of Usertsen III (Vestibule, No. =163=) and the grey granite statue of Ȧmenemḥāt III (Bay 20, No. =775=). In his reign flourished the =good recorder of Pithom=, whose statue (Bay 21, No. =776=) was found at Pithom. The reigns of the other kings of this dynasty, Shashanq II, Thekeleth II, Shashanq III, Pamȧi, and Shashanq IV were unimportant. [Illustration: PLATE XLII. Hathor-headed capital from the temple of Osorkon II at Bubastis. XXIInd dynasty, B.C. 866. [Central Saloon, No. 768.]] Twenty-Third Dynasty. From Tanis. B.C. 766. The principal kings of this dynasty were =Peṭā-Bast= and =Osorkon III=, who reigned in the Delta.