By Jacqueline Engel
Silver Coffin of King Psusennes the First and Shesgonq II with head of funary God Sokar.
Tanis collection in the Egyptian Museum Caïro.
Psusennes I, himself, was interred in an “inner silver coffin” which was inlaid with gold (https://laciviltaegizia.org/2022/03/25/la-bara-dargento-di-psusennes-i/)
Since “silver was considerably rarer in Egypt than gold,” Psusennes I’s silver “coffin represents a sumptuous burial of great wealth during Egypt’s declining years.”
Psusennes I (Greek Ψουσέννης) was the third pharaoh of the 21st Dynasty who ruled from Tanis between 1047–1001 BC.
Psusennes is the Greek version of his original name Pasibkhanu or Pasebakhaenniut (Ancient Egyptian: pꜣ-sbꜣ-ḫꜥ(j)-n-njwt), which means “The Star Appearing in the City” while his throne name, Akheperre Setepenamun, translates as “Great are the Manifestations of Ra, chosen of Amun.”
He was the son of Pinedjem Iand Henuttawy, Ramesses XI’s daughter by Tentamun. He married his sister Mutnedjmet.
Silver coffin of Shesgonq II with head of funary God Sokar (https://laciviltaegizia.org/2022/03/04/sheshonq-ii/).
Tanis collection in the Egyptian Museum Caïro.
Heqakheperre Shoshenq II or Shoshenq IIa was a pharaoh of the 22nd dynastyof Egypt.
He was the only ruler of this Dynasty whose tomb was not plundered by tomb robbers.
His final resting place was discovered within an antechamber of Psusennes I’s tomb at Tanis by Pierre Montet in 1939.
Montet removed the coffin lid of Shoshenq II on March 20, 1939, in the presence of king Farouk of Egypt himself.
It proved to contain a large number of jewel-encrusted bracelets and pectorals, along with a beautiful hawkheaded silver coffin and a gold funerary mask.
The gold facemask had been placed upon the head of the king.
Montet later discovered the intact tombs of two Dynasty 21 kings—Psusennes I and Amenemope a year later in February and April 1940 respectively. Shoshenq II’s prenomen, Heqakheperre Setepenre, means “The manifestation of Ra rules, the chosen one of Ra.”
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