Shepenupet I or Shapenewpet I was
God's Wife of Amun during the
Twenty-third Dynasty of Egypt.
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Biography
She was the first “hereditary”
God's Wife or
Divine Adoratrice of Amun to wield political power in ancient
Thebes and its surrounding region. She was the first to take on complete royal titulary with names in two
cartouches (her prenomen ''Khenemetibamun'' means 'she who is one with the heart of Amun'), and although her successors followed her example, she remained the only one who also bore the royal titles “Lord of the Two Lands” and “Lord of Appearances”, also, the only one whose throne name refers to
Amun, not to his wife
Mut.
She was the daughter of
Osorkon III and Queen Karoadjet, and the (half-)sister of
Takelot III and
Rudamun
Rudamun was the final pharaoh of the Twenty-third Dynasty of Egypt. His titulary simply reads as Usermaatre Setepenamun, Rudamun Meryamun, and excludes the Si-Ese or Netjer-Heqawaset epithets employed by his father and brother.
Biography
He was ...
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[Dodson & Hilton, pp.226-227] She was God's Wife during her father's whole reign. When
Kashta, a monarch of the
25th Dynasty, extended his influence to the Theban area, she was compelled to adopt Kashta's daughter
Amenirdis I as her successor and name her as her chosen heir. Shepenupet and Amenirdis are depicted together in Wadi Gasus.
Shepenupet is known to have survived into the reign of
Shebitku
Shebitku ( egy, šꜣ-bꜣ-tꜣ-kꜣ, Neo-Assyrian: , grc, Σεθῶν ) also known as Shabataka or Shebitqo, and anglicized as Sethos, was the second pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt who ruled from 714 BC – 705 BC, according to ...
since she is depicted on a section of a wall
Temple J which was decorated under this
Nubian king.
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God's Wives of Amun
People of the Twenty-third Dynasty of Egypt
8th-century BC Egyptian women
8th-century BC clergy
8th-century BC Egyptian people
Berber people