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At Smender’s death, his son Psusennes received his inheritance. The new
sovereign married his half sister Henouttaoi and another of Smender’s daughters.
Psusennes I from 1040 BC to 993 BC tried to make a synthesis between the
pharaohnic power and the religious power. His Horo name was “The powerful bull
crowned in Tebe” and it indicated the precise royal will to show that Egypt from
Tanis to Tebe and up to Nubia had an only pharaoh. He didnět absolutely want to renounce to his rights as Lord of upper and lower Egypt although he never made works worthy of such a great prestigious and responsible role, from an architectural view-point, the sovereign ordered to raise in Tanis colossal city walls that formed a sacred enclosure to protect Amon’s great temple. We have few elements about foreign politic to individualize a precise line of action. We know that Psusennes I received a gold necklace from an Asian prince of whom we don’t know the name. This archaeological find is unfortunately not sufficient to give us information about the relations at Egypt in the third middle period with foreign countries.
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