Shedsu-nefertum was a High Priest of Ptah at the end of the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt and beginning of the Twenty-second Dynasty. Shedsunefertem was the son of the High Priest Ankhefensekhmet and the lady Tapeshenese, who was First Chief of the Harem of Ptah and Prophetess of Mut.
Shedsu-nefertum | |
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High Priest of Ptah in Memphis | |
Predecessor | Ankhefensekhmet |
Successor | Shoshenq C |
Dynasty | 21st Dynasty |
Pharaoh | Siamen? and Osorkon I? |
Father | Ankhefensekhmet, High priest of Ptah |
Mother | Tapeshenese, First Chief of the Harem of Ptah and Prophetess of Mut |
Wife | Mehtenweskhet and Tentsepeh A |
Children | Ptahshepses |
Burial | Saqqara |
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The Greatest of the Directors of the Craftsmen, the sem priest Shedsu-nefertum wr ḫ.rpw hmwt sm Šdsw-nfr-tm in hieroglyphs | |||||||||||
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Era: 3rd Intermediate Period (1069–664 BC) | |||||||||||
Shedsu-nefertum had two wives. One of his wives was named Mehtenweskhet, who was probably a daughter of Nimlot A and Tentsepeh A. She was thus a sister of Shoshenq I. The other wife was named Tentsepeh B. She may have been a daughter of Psusennes II.[1]
References
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- ^ K.A. Kitchen,The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, 1100-650 B.C., 1996 ed.