Pimay

Pami or Pamiu (pȝ-mjw), wrongly read Pimay (pȝ-mȝj), was an ancient Egyptian prince, the son of a pharaoh named Shoshenq Meryamun, probably Shoshenq V. Pami was titled Chief of the Ma during his father's reign. He is known from a small inscribed talisman statue group in the Egyptian Museum at Cairo (CG 9430), depicting a god, probably Heryshaf, and a goddess, Ayt-Bastet. The last line of the text on the back of the piece reads "May his name endure before his father Heryshaf-King-of-the-Two-Lands, the Chief of Ma Pami, son of the Lord of the Two Lands Shoshenq Meryamun, living for eternity."

==Identity== In his influential work on the Third Intermediate Period, Kenneth A. Kitchen misread the name of the prince as Pimay and, despite his misgivings about a different orthography, suggested that he was a son of King Shoshenq III and that he was also identical with Shoshenq III's successor, King Pami I. Additionally, Kitchen suggested that the Chief of Ma's fief might have been Sais in the western Delta, the supposed place of origin of the statue group. It was later determined that Kitchen had misread the prince's name and that Shoshenq III was succeeded by another king named Shoshenq, designated Shoshenq IV. In more recent works, Aidan Dodson, while correcting Kitchen's reading of the name, suggested that the Chief of Ma Pami, still assumed to be a son of Shoshenq III, could be identical with King Pami I as the successor of Shoshenq IV.