Shoshenq VI

Shoshenq VI

Pharaoh Infobox | Name=Shoshenq VI
Predecessor=Pedubast I
Reign=–
Dynasty=23rd Dynasty
Successor=Osorkon III
Spouse=

Shoshenq VI is known to be Pedubast I's immediate successor at Thebes based upon the career of the Letter Writer to Pharaoh Hor IX, who served under Osorkon II and Pedubast I (see Hor IX's statue--CGC 42226--which is explicitly dated to Pedubast's reign). Since Shoshenq VI's prenomen is inscribed on Hor IX's funerary cones, this indicates that Hor IX outlived Pedubast I and made his funeral arrangements under Shoshenq VI instead. (see D. Aston, p.152) His prenomen or royal name was 'Usermaatre Meryamun Shoshenq' which is unusual because it is the only known example where the epithet Meryamun ("Beloved of Amun") appears within a king's cartouche. Shoshenq VI's High Priest of Amun was a certain Takelot who first appears in office in Year 23 of Pedubast I.

Shoshenq VI's Year 4 and Year 6 are attested in an inscription carved on the roof of the Temple of Monthu at Karnak by a certain Djedioh and in Nile Quay Text No.25 respectively. Shoshenq VI was presumably Crown Prince Osorkon B's chief rival at Thebes after the death of Pedubast I. He was defeated and ousted from power at Thebes in Year 39 of Shoshenq III by Prince Osorkon. In this decisive Year, Osorkon B explicitly states in Nile Quay Text No.7 that he and his brother, General Bakenptah of Herakleopolis, conquered Thebes and "overthrew everyone who had fought against them." (Kitchen, TIPE 1986, p.340) Thereafter, Shoshenq VI is never heard from again.

NOTE: The old king Shoshenq IV in pre-1993 books and journal articles was renamed Shoshenq VI by Egyptologists today because he was a Theban king who is only attested by Upper Egyptian documents. This monarch was never a ruler of the Tanite based 22nd Dynasty of Egypt

Bibliography

* David Aston, "Takeloth II: A Theban King of the 23rd Dynasty?" JEA 75(1989), pp.139-53
* Davies & MacAdam, A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones(1957), No. 25-26
* Kenneth Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt c.100-650 BC (2nd edition,1986), p.340


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