Amenemope

  Amenemope governed until 984 BC. The relationship with Psusennes I is not clare, in fact Amenemope’s mummy was found with bracelets that had Psusennes’s I name on, that indicate the sovereign’s membership to the tanita family, but it’s unknown if he was son or nephew. The historian Manetone points out the presence of a king called Neferkare Amenemnesut between these two sovereigns, but this reign has not yet been documented. His name is associated to Psusennes I and according to other historians it would indicate a co-governor nominated by Psusennes I himself

Amenemope
In this portrait of the young pharaoh the eyes and eyebrows in bronze, surmounted by a beautiful urco in gold and precious stones, have a great importance. Detail of the wood sarcophagus covered in gold leaf.
( Egyptian Museum in Cairo)


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