King Hedjkheperre Setepenamun Harsiese or Harsiese A, is viewed by the Egyptologist
Kenneth Kitchen in his Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, to be both a "High Priest of
Amun" and the son of the High Priest of Amun
Shoshenq C. The archaeological evidence does suggest that he was indeed Shoshenq C's son. However, recent published studies by the
German Egyptologist Karl Jansen-Winkeln in JEA 81(1995) have demonstrated that all the monuments of the first (king) Harsiese show that he was never a High Priest of Amun in his own right. Rather both Harsiese A and his son [...du] —whose existence is known from inscriptions on the latter's funerary objects at
Coptos —are only attested as Ordinary Priests of Amun. Instead, while Harsiese A was certainly an independent king at Thebes during the first decade of Osorkon II's kingship, he was a different person from a second person who was also called Harsiese:
Harsiese B. Harsiese B was the genuine High Priest of Amun who is attested in office late in Osorkon II's reign, in the
regnal year 6 of
Shoshenq III and in regnal years 18 and 19 of
Pedubast I, according to Jansen-Winkeln.
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