Usimare Setepenamun Takelot III Si-Ese was
Osorkon III's eldest son and successor. Takelot III ruled the first five years of his reign in a
coregency with his father and served previously as the High Priest of Amun at
Thebes. Takelot III's own High Priest at Thebes was Osorkon F, his son who predeceased him. Takelot is attested by several documents: a donation
stela from
Gurob which calls him "The First Prophet of Amun-Re, General and Commander Takelot," a stone block from Herakleopolis which calls him 'the Chief of
Per-Sekhemkheperre' and king's son by Tentsai,
Quay Text No.13 which equates Year 5 of Takelot III to Year 28 of Osorkon III and
Quay Text No.4 which records his Year 6. (Payraudeau, GM 198, pp.79-80) Finally, a
Graffito on the roof of the Temple of Khonsu records his Year 7, which was long believed to be his Highest Year date. However, in February 2005, a hieratic stela from Year 13 of his reign was discovered by a University of Columbia archaeological expedition in the ruins of a Temple at the
Dakhla Oasis. The name of the king in the stela was initially thought to be
Harsiese A but further analysis conclusively established his identity as Takelot III. This document--which measures "between 42-48 cm wide; between 47-51 cm high; [and] between 10-16 cm thick"--has now been published in JEOL 39 (2006) by Dr. Olaf Kaper and Robert Demarée. (Kaper & Demaree, p.22) Part of the abstract for their article is given below: "..The stela belongs to a group of finds documenting the temple of the God
Thoth...[in the western part of the Dakhla Oasis]...during the Third Intermediate Period. One block of temple decoration was found in the name of king
Petubastis (I), and the stela under discussion was set up in the temple to which this block belonged. The stela's principal text has five lines, in which the date of the stela is given as Year 13 of Takeloth III (c. 740 BCE), as well as the name of the god Thoth of SA-wHAt, the local deity. The stela records a land donation to the temple on the part of the local governor, chief of a
Libyan tribe, and it concludes with a list of eleven priests who are beneficiaries of this donation....Another donation stela erected by the same governor is known from the temple of
Seth in Mut (Dakhleh)." (Kaper & Demarée, JEOL 39)
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