| Shoshenq II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Gold funerary mask of Shoshenq II in the Cairo Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 887–885 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Osorkon I | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Takelot I (most likely) or Tutkheperre Shoshenq? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Consort | Nesitanebetashru, Nesitaudjatakhet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 885 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burial | Tanis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 22nd Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Heqakheperre Shoshenq II or Shoshenq IIa[1] was a pharaoh of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt. He was the only ruler of this dynasty whose tomb was not plundered by tomb robbers. His final resting place was discovered within an antechamber of Psusennes I's tomb at Tanis by Pierre Montet in 1939. Montet removed the coffin lid of Shoshenq II on March 20, 1939, in the presence of king Farouk of Egypt himself.[2] It proved to contain many jewel-encrusted bracelets and pectorals, along with a beautiful hawkheaded silver coffin and a gold funerary mask.[3] The facemask had been placed upon the head of the king.[4] Montet later discovered the intact tombs of two Twenty-first Dynasty kings (Psusennes I and Amenemope) a year later in February and April 1940 respectively. Shoshenq II's prenomen, Heqakheperre Setepenre, means "The manifestation of Ra rules, the chosen one of Ra."[5]
- ^ Kaper, O.E. (2008). "The Libyan Period in Egypt". Egyptian Archaeology. 32: 38–39.
At the October 2007 Egyptological Conference on the History and Chronology of the Libyan Period in Egypt at Leiden University, the conference members voted unanimously to designate him as Shoshenq IIa.
- ^ Brier, Bob. Egyptian Mummies: Unravelling the Secrets of an Ancient Art, William Morrow & Company Inc., New York, (1994). p. 145.
- ^ Sheshonq II
- ^ Brier, p. 144.
- ^ Clayton, Peter A., Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt, Thames and Hudson, London, (1994). p. 185.