Shedsu-nefertum

Shedsu-nefertum was a High Priest of Ptah at the end of the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt and beginning of the Twenty-second Dynasty. Shedsunefertem was the son of the High Priest Ankhefensekhmet and the lady Tapeshenese, who was First Chief of the Harem of Ptah and Prophetess of Mut.

Shedsu-nefertum
High Priest of Ptah in Memphis
Detail of a relief depicting Shedsu-nefertum (Musée du Louvre)
PredecessorAnkhefensekhmet
SuccessorShoshenq C
Dynasty21st Dynasty
PharaohSiamen? and Osorkon I?
FatherAnkhefensekhmet, High priest of Ptah
MotherTapeshenese, First Chief of the Harem of Ptah and Prophetess of Mut
WifeMehtenweskhet and Tentsepeh A
ChildrenPtahshepses
BurialSaqqara
G36S42U24S29G17I1D46
O34
F35X1
U15
A1
The Greatest of the Directors of the Craftsmen,
the sem priest Shedsu-nefertum
wr ḫ.rpw hmwt sm Šdsw-nfr-tm
in hieroglyphs
Era: 3rd Intermediate Period
(1069–664 BC)

Shedsu-nefertum had two wives. One of his wives was named Mehtenweskhet, who was probably a daughter of Nimlot A and Tentsepeh A. She was thus a sister of Shoshenq I. The other wife was named Tentsepeh B. She may have been a daughter of Psusennes II.[1]

References

  1. K.A. Kitchen,The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt, 1100-650 B.C., 1996 ed.



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