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ACCESSION Osorkon III's precise accession date is unknown. Various Egyptologists have suggested an accession date for Osorkon III from around the mid-790's BC to as late as 787 BC in Kenneth Kitchen's book, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt. (Kitchen, p.543) This issue is especially complicated by the fact that Prince Osorkon B did not immediately declare himself king after his succesful conquest of Thebes as is evidenced by the fact that he dated this seminal event to Year 39 of Shoshenq III rather than Year 1 of Osorkon III. This suggests that Osorkon must have waited for one or two years before proclaiming himself as a Pharaoh of the Theban 23rd Dynasty. Osorkon would have had to defeat any remaining supporters of the Pedubast I/Shoshenq VI faction in other regions of Upper Egypt whether they were in Elephantine, the Western Desert Oasis area--where Pedubast I is monumentally attested--or elsewhere in order to consolidate his position. Hence, Year 1 of Osorkon III is likely equivalent to Year 1 or Year 2 of Sheshonq IV instead, rather than Year 39 of Sheshonq III. IDENTITY Osorkon III is attested by numerous impressive donation Stela s and stone blocks from Herakleopolis through to Thebes. He is generally thought to have been a contemporary of the Lower Egyptian Twenty-Second Dynasty kings, Shoshenq IV , Pami , and the first decade of Shoshenq V's reign. Osorkon III's chief wife was Queen Karoadjet but his second wife was named '''Tentsai'''. A stela of Prince Osorkon B calls his spouse '''Tent {Link without Title} ''' with part of the name being lost. The latter name can be rendered as either Tentsai or Tentamun. Significantly, however, both men have a daughter called '''Shepenupet'''.
WIVES: According to and Rudamun . (Kitchen, TIPE 1996, p.352) Shepenupet I would outlive both her half-brothers as the serving God's Wife of Amun at Thebes and survive into the reign of the Nubian ruler, Shebitku , where she is depicted on the Temple Walls of Osiris-Heqadjet, which was decorated by this king. REFERENCES:
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