Shoshenq was a

High Priest of Ptah The High Priest of Ptah was sometimes referred to as "the Greatest of the Directors of Craftsmanship" ('' wr-ḫrp-ḥmwt''). This title refers to Ptah as the patron god of the craftsmen.Dodson and Hilton, ''The Complete Royal Families of Anci ...

during the

22nd Dynasty The Twenty-second Dynasty was an Ancient Egyptian dynasty of ancient Libyan origin founded by Shoshenq I. It is also known as the Bubastite Dynasty, since the pharaohs originally ruled from the city of Bubastis. The Twenty-first, Twenty-se ...

. Shoshenq was the eldest son of

Osorkon II Usermaatre Setepenamun Osorkon II was the fifth pharaoh, king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt, Twenty-second Dynasty of Ancient Egypt and the son of King Takelot I and Queen Kapes. He ruled Egypt from approximately 872 BC to 837 BC from Ta ...

and Queen Karomama. He presided over the burial of the twenty-seventh

Apis bull In ancient Egyptian religion, Apis or Hapis, alternatively spelled Hapi-ankh, was a sacred bull or multiple sacred bulls worshiped in the Memphis region, identified as the son of Hathor, a primary deity in the pantheon of ancient Egypt. Initi ...

Saqqara Saqqara ( : saqqāra ), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English , is an Egyptian village in the markaz (county) of Badrashin in the Giza Governorate, that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for ...

. For unknown reasons Shoshenq did not succeed to his father's throne and was buried in Memphis when

Shoshenq III The modern designation Shoshenq III refers to King Usermaatre Setepnamun Shoshenq Sibaste Meryamun Netjerheqaon, who reigned for about four decades, c. 841–c. 803/799 BC or c. 831–c. 791/788 BC. His highest attested regnal year is Year 39. A ...

was king of Egypt. Shoshenq's tomb was found unplundered in 1942.Dodson and Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004 Shoshenq is known to have had a son named Takelot B. Through Takelot B he was the grandfather of a man named Pediese, who was a chief of the Ma, and the great-grandfather of a later High Priest of Ptah named Peftjauawybast.K.A. Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, 1100–650 B.C., 1996 ed. Items belonging to Shoshenq include: *Two naophorous kneeling statues (one now in Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts (51.2050), the other in Vienna,

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ( "Vienna Museum of art history, Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, i ...

(ÄS 5773) - the latter statue, however, bears no securely identifying inscriptions"Budapest-Statue": Helmut Brandl, ''Untersuchungen zur steinernen Privatplastik der Dritten Zwischenzeit: Typologie - Ikonographie - Stilistik'', mbv publishers, Berlin 2008, pp. 54-55, pl. 17-18, 163a, Fig. 26 (Doc. O-3.1); "Vienna-Statue": ''ibid''., pp. 256-257 pl. 21.). The Budapest statue gives the titles and family relations of Shoshenq: ''“Great Chief Prince of His Majesty, High Priest and Sem Priest of Ptah, Great King’s Son of the Lord of the Two lands Usimare Stepenamun, Son of Re, Lord of Epiphanies Osorkon (II) Meryamun Si-Bast, his mother being Karomama”'' *A chalice, now in Berlin. *A scarab in the

Petrie Museum The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects, making it one of the world's largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese ma ...

in London.

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Memphis high priests of Ptah People of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt 9th-century BC clergy Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Egyptian Berbers {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub