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A discussion of the evidence for the career of Amenirdis II, daughter of Taharqa, and adopted daughter of the God's Wife of Amun Shepenwepet II. Consideration of the monuments and the titles used by the God's Wives and their heirs leads to the conclusion that Amenirdis never advanced to the position of God's Wife, but instead held a
Amenirdis II. The ancient Nubian princess Amenirdis II, daughter of the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa of the 25th Dynasty, was adopted by Shepenupet II, daughter of Piye, [2] to become Divine Adoratrice of Amun from around 650 BC to 640 BC during the 26th Dynasty.
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The adoption of king Kashta’s daughter, Amenirdis I, as God’s Wife of Amun made Kushite rule in Thebes legitimate. Occupied by a woman of the reigning royal family, the office of God’s Wife had served as a mediator between the god and the king since the time of Egypt’s New Kingdom. Each God’s Wife adopted her successor. Amenirdis would have been pr...
Lavish coronation ceremonies marked the succession of a God’s Wife to office. God’s Wives received throne names and had their names written in cartouches just like the kings of Egypt. They were endowed with their own estates, property, staff, and administrators. Their tombs were on the grounds of Ramesses III’s temple at Medinet Habu in Thebes inst...
The New Kingdom conquest of Nubia brought with it a major shift in Nubian funerary practices. No longer flexed and laid on beds, bodies were now extended and often buried in coffins of mummiform shape with face or coffin masks like the ones in the New Kingdom and Napatan case. Egyptian jewelry was placed on the bodies and the furnishings of the gra...
Pyramids built in Nubia were modeled after small, steep-sided pyramids often used for private tombs in Egypt. After the Egyptian conquest, such pyramids, made of mud brick, soon appeared in several cemeteries in northern Nubia and also farther south at Napata. Chapels associated with the pyramids were decorated with tomb scenes in Egyptian style. H...
Shepenupet II: Daughter of Piye, sister of Taharqa: 710–650 BCE Amenirdis II: Daughter of Taharqa 670–640 BCE Nitocris I: Daughter of Psamtik I: 656–586 BCE Ankhnesneferibre: Daughter of Psamtik II, great-niece of Nitocris I 595–c.560 BCE Nitocris II: Daughter of Amasis II; office was abolished in 525 due to the Persian conquest c.560 ...
May 4, 2017 · Volume 88, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/030751330208800112. Contents. Abstract. A discussion of the evidence for the career of Amenirdis II, daughter of Taharqa, and adopted daughter of the God's Wife of Amun Shepenwepet II.
Shepenupet II and Amenirdis II were the last vestiges of the vanished 25th Dynasty, yet they held this highest position of power in the south and practically controlled the entirety of Upper Egypt.
Accepting that a legal document between Shepenwepet I and Amenirdis I was involved (as with Amenirdis II and Nitocris later), the motivation for this is widely recognised as political: an indication that Thebes was under Kushite rule and that that rule was acknowledged by Osorkon III and, or, Takeloth III.
