Usermaatre Setepenamun Osorkon II was a
pharaoh of the
Twenty-second Dynasty of
Ancient Egypt and the son of
Takelot I and Queen Kapes. He ruled Egypt around
872 BC to
837 BC from
Tanis, the capital of this Dynasty. After succeeding his father, he was faced with the competing rule of his cousin, King
Harsiese A, who controlled both
Thebes and the Western Oasis of Egypt. Osorkon feared the serious challenge posed by Harsiese's kingship to his authority, but, when Harsiese conveniently died in
860 BC, Osorkon II ensured that this problem would not recur by appointing his own son
Nimlot C as the
High Priest of Amun at Thebes. His younger son Shoshenq was made the High Priest of
Ptah in Memphis. In this period of Egypt's history, religious and political power were at their most inseparable.
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