- Harsiese A
, according to Jansen-Winkeln.
While Harsiese A may have become king at Thebes prior to Year 4 of Osorkon II, contra Kitchen, he certainly ruled Thebes during the first decade of Osorkon II's reign as Kitchen notes. Osorkon II's control over this great city is only first documented by 2 separate Year 12 Quay Texts which means that Harsiese had died by this time. If Harsiese was already ruling at Thebes earlier under Takelot I, it might help explain why Takelot I's own Year 5, Year 8, and Year 14
Nile Quay Texts , which mention the serving High Priests Iuwelot and Smendes III--who were all brothers of Takelot I--consistently omit any mention of Takelot's name, as Gerard Broekman aptly notes in a JEA 88(2002) article. Takelot I's name is left deliberately blank here. This might indicate a possible rivalry between Takelot I and Harsiese A at Thebes. The Amun Priests may have chosen not to involve themselves in this dispute by omitting any mention of the reigning king's name.Burial
According to a 1994 book by the English Egyptologist Aidan Dodson, King Harsiese:: "was buried in a tomb within the
temenos at Medinet Habu, in the trough of a granite coffin (JE 60137) made forRamesses II 's sister, Henutmire, (and) closed with a hawk-Headed lid. When cleared, fourcanopic jar s were found....No trace of any lids have survived, suggesting that such items may have been of [perishable] wood,"(p.92). Dodson notes that Harsiese's coffin is similar in style to the Hawk Headed, silver coffin ofShoshenq II , and to the surviving – "traces of the gilded coffin and cartonnage ofOsorkon II ," (pp.88-89).References
* Gerard Broekman, "The Nile Level Records of the Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third Dynasties in Karnak," "
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology " 88 (2002), pp.163-178
* Aidan Dodson, "The Canopic Equipment of the Kings of Egypt," (Kegan Paul Intl: 1994), pp.88-89 and p.92.
* K.A. Kitchen, "The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC)", 3rd ed. Warminster: Aris and Phillips Limited, (1996)
* Karl Jansen-Winkeln, "Historische Probleme Der 3. Zwischenzeit," in JEA 81(1995), pp.129-149.
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