Shoshenq Shoshenq C

1975

Consequently, he was the most important official in Upper Egypt after the king himself. In the statue, Shoshenq C is called "the Master of the Two Lands" and the formula "beloved of Amun" is enclosed within a royal cartouche. In addition, none of Shoshenq C"s three wives used the title "King"s Wife" in any of their artifacts. Finally, as Helen Jacquet-Gordon perceptively notes in her Bi Or 32(1975) Book Review of Kenneth Kitchen"s TIPE book, Shoshenq C"s third child—the Priest (and future king) Harsiese A does not assign royal titles to his father on a Bes-statue in Durham Museum which he dedicated to his father"s memory. fact. We must therefore conclude that he (ie: Shoshenq C) had no such pretensions." All this evidence taken together suggest that the High Priest Shoshenq C was not a king in his own right and is not Shoshenq II, whose Royal tomb was found intact in Tanis. As an aside, king Shoshenq II did not include any mementos or objects which mention Osorkon I within his own tomb. The High Priest Shoshenq C was probably succeeded in office by Iuwelot, who was also another son of Osorkon I. Shoshenq C"s son, Harsiese, later ruled over Thebes and Middle Egypt as king Harsiese A. They consequently distinguish him entirely from king Heqakheperre Shoshenq II at Tanis.

Shoshenq Shoshenq C Edit Profile

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Background

He has generally been equated with Heqakheperre Shoshenq II by the English Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen and viewed as a short-lived co-regent to his father based on the Nile God British Museum statue 8 which identifies him as the son of Osorkon I and Queen Maatkare, daughter of Hor-Psusennes but this assumption is unproven. However, in the text of the statue, he is not given a specific throne name or prenomen, the use of a cartouche by a royal prince is attested in other periods of Egyptian history such as that of Amenmes, son of Thutmose I, and the documents depicts Shoshenq C as a simple High Priest of Amun on the side of the legs of the Nile God, rather than a king.

Career

Consequently, he was the most important official in Upper Egypt after the king himself. In the statue, Shoshenq C is called "the Master of the Two Lands" and the formula "beloved of Amun" is enclosed within a royal cartouche. In addition, none of Shoshenq C"s three wives used the title "King"s Wife" in any of their artifacts.

Finally, as Helen Jacquet-Gordon perceptively notes in her Bi Or 32(1975) Book Review of Kenneth Kitchen"s TIPE book, Shoshenq C"s third child—the Priest (and future king) Harsiese A does not assign royal titles to his father on a Bes-statue in Durham Museum which he dedicated to his father"s memory. fact.

We must therefore conclude that he (ie: Shoshenq C) had no such pretensions." All this evidence taken together suggest that the High Priest Shoshenq C was not a king in his own right and is not Shoshenq II, whose Royal tomb was found intact in Tanis. As an aside, king Shoshenq II did not include any mementos or objects which mention Osorkon I within his own tomb.

The High Priest Shoshenq C was probably succeeded in office by Iuwelot, who was also another son of Osorkon I. Shoshenq C"s son, Harsiese, later ruled over Thebes and Middle Egypt as king Harsiese A.

They consequently distinguish him entirely from king Heqakheperre Shoshenq II at Tanis.

Achievements

There is a high degree of academic uncertainty regarding the parentage of Shoshenq II: some scholars today argue that this mid-50"s year old ruler was actually a younger son of Shoshenq I due to the discovery of items naming the founder of the 22nd Dynasty in his royal Tanite tomb such as "a pectoral of the great chief of the Ma Shoshenq A, and a bracelet of Shoshenq I." Karl Jansen-Winkeln concludes thus: "The commonly assumed identification of this king with the (earlier) Himachal Pradesh and son of Osorkon I does not appear to be very probable." Other scholars including Jürgen von Beckerath and Norbert Dautzenberg view the High Priest Shoshenq C as an entirely separate ruler who ruled over Thebes and Upper Egypt as king Maatkheperre Shoshenq. This Libyan Pharaoh had statue Cairo CG 42192 rededicated and reinscribed.

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