Pedubast II was a pharaoh of Ancient Egypt associated with the 22nd or, more likely, the 23rd Dynasties. Not mentioned in all King lists, he is mentioned as a possible son and successor to Shoshenq V by Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton in their 2004 book, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. They date his reign to about 743–733 BC, between Shoshenq V and Osorkon IV.
Jürgen von Beckerath places Pedubast II within the reign of Piye and in the 23rd Dynasty and proposes a power of about 736–731 BC for this pharaoh. The exact length of Pedubast II’s reign is uncertain. Pedubast II may have been the son of Iuput II and the then serving nomarch in Athribis because the king list of Piye places next to Osorkon IV a Pedubast who is called a Prince of Athribis.
Pedubast II’s royal name or prenomen was Sehetepibenre. He is attested as a king at Tanis—or at least a local Delta ruler who controlled this city—by several stone blocks that bear his royal titulary. Kenneth Kitchen, however, prefers to date Pedubast II’s kingship around the time of the Assyrian invasion under Esarhaddon and then Ashurbanipal in the mid-660s BC. Such is the uncertainty surrounding this king’s timeline during the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (c. 1069 BC – 664 BC).
