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Herihor was an Egyptian army officer and High Priest of Amun at Thebes ( 1080 BC to 1074 BC ) during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses XI although Karl Jansen Winkeln has argued that Piankh preceded Herihor as High Priest at Thebes and that Herihor outlived Ramesses XI before being succeeded in this office by Pinedjem I, Piankh's son based on the decoration program of the Temple of Khonsu at Karnak which depicts the chief priests Herihor and then Pinedjem I, serving in this office but never Piankh.
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Herihor and was
( The High Priest Herihor had died before Ramesses XI, but also was an all-but-independent ruler in the latter days of the king's reign.
As the chaos and insecurity continued, Ramesses was forced to inaugurate a triumvirate in his Regnal Year 19, with the High Priest of Amun Herihor ruling Thebes and Upper Egypt and Smendes controlling Lower Egypt.
Herihor died around Year 6 of the Whm Mswt ( Year 24 of Ramesses XI ) and was succeeded as High Priest by Piankh.
Herihor advanced through the ranks of the military during the reign of Ramesses XI and was integral to restoring order by ousting Pinehesy, viceroy of Nubia, from Thebes.
" While both Herihor and his wife Nodjmet were given royal cartouches in inscriptions on their funerary equipment, their ' kingship ' was limited to a few relatively restricted areas of Thebes whereas Ramesses XI's name was still recorded in official administrative documents throughout the country.
Under the Wehem Mesut era, the Theban high priest -- Herihor -- and Ramesses XI quietly agreed to accept the new political situation where the High Priest was unofficially as powerful as Pharaoh.
The report of Wenamun ( also known as Wen-Amon ) was made in Year 5 of Herihor and Herihor is mentioned in several Year 5 and Year 6 mummy linen graffitos.
While the High Priest of Amun Piankh ( or Payankh ) has been assumed to be a son-in-law of Herihor and his heir to the Theban throne of the High Priest of Amun, recent studies by Karl Jansen-Winkeln of the surviving temple inscriptions and monumental works by Herihor and Piankh in Upper Egypt imply that Piankh was actually Herihor's predecessor and father in-law.
He was succeeded in office by either Herihor or Pinedjem I, his son.
If Hrere was the mother of Nesibanebdjedet, then he was a brother of Nodjmet and through her brother in law of the High Priests Herihor and Piankh.
Herihor and Egyptian
Herihor had risen from the ranks of the Egyptian military to restore a degree of order, and became the new high Priest of Amun.
Herihor and High
* Herihor, High priest of Amon
Other than Psusennes, Pinedjem had four other sons, whose mother is unidentified, but one or more of them must have been born to Duathathor-Henuttawy: Masaharta, Djedkhonsuefankh, Menkheperre ( all of whom became High Priests of Amun ) and Nesipaneferhor, a God's Father ( priest ) of Amun, whose name replaced that of a son of Herihor in the Karnak temple of Khonsu.
As the story begins, the principal character, Wenamun, a priest of Amun at Karnak, is sent by the High Priest of Amun Herihor to the Phoenician city of Byblos to acquire lumber ( probably cedar wood ) to build a new ship to transport the cult image of Amun.
Thebes, Wenamun's hometown, is under the control of Herihor -- the High Priest of Amon.
Herihor and Amun
Die Hohenpriester des Amun von Karnak von Herihor bis zum Ende der Äthiopenzeit ( 1964 ).
However, many Egyptologists today believe that the succession in the Amun priesthood actually ran from Piankh to Herihor to Pinedjem I.
Menkheperre took as his throne name the title of " First prophet of Amun ", just as his great-grandfather Herihor had, perhaps an indication of this diminished role, though he kept the cartouche unlike his successors in the temple.
Herihor and at
Herihor amassed power and titles at the expense of Pinehesy, Viceroy of Nubia, whom he had expelled from Thebes.
At the decoration of the hypostyle hall walls of the temple of Khonsu at Karnak, Herihor served several years under king Ramesses XI since he is shown obediently performing his duties as chief priest under this sovereign.
Herihor never really held power outside the environs of Thebes, and Ramesses XI may have outlived him by two years although Jansen-Winkeln argues that Ramesses XI actually died first and only then did Herihor finally assume some form of royal status at Thebes and openly adopted royal titles -- but only in a " half-hearted " manner according to Arno Egberts who has adopted Jansen Winkeln's views here.
Herihor and Thebes
At Thebes, Herihor usurped royal power without actually deposing Ramesses, and he effectively became the defacto ruler of Upper Egypt because his authority superseded the king's.
Herihor and Ramesses
* Herihor under Ramesses XI
Herihor and Piankh
If true, Herihor would have served in office as chief priest -- after succeeding Piankh -- for longer than just 6 years as is traditionally believed.
Herihor and before
In each, the protagonist perishes before he can implement his plans — though, in the novel, some of these are eventually realized by Ramses ' adversary and successor, Herihor.
Herihor and being
Traditional Ethiopian kinglists name Herihor, and his successors through Pinudjem II, among the rulers of Saba in the Semitic Agazyan Ethiopian dynasty, and he is considered to have ruled Ethiopia for 16 years in addition to being de facto ruler in Egypt.
Herihor and office
Herihor instead intervened to assume to this office.
Herihor and by
21, HP Herihor, Pinedjem I and Menkheperra have royal attributes and titles to differing extents " whereas the first three Tanite kings ( Smendes aka: Nesubanebded, Amenemnisu and Psusennes I ) are almost never referred to by name in Upper Egypt with the exception of one graffito and rock stela for Smendes.
Herihor and .
* Herhor, high priest of Amon and Ramses ' principal antagonist: historic high priest Herihor.
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