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pendant bearing the cartouche of osorkon ii usermaatre in maat is ra , the chosen one of amun setepenamun '' m23 : t-l2 : t - '' wsr.m3ˁt - rˁ-stp-n-jmn '' '' rich 22nd dynasty kanakht - sw-r-nsw-t3wj '' '' strong bull , beloved of maat mery-maat , whom ra causes to be king of the two sekhaisewer lands '' nesutawy '' k3-nḫt-mrj-m3ˁt-sḫˁ -lrb- j -rrb- takelot i shoshenq iii tjesbastperu , nimlot c , shoshenq d , hornakht usermaatre in maat is ra , the chosen one of amun setepenamun '' m23 : t-l2 : t - '' wsr.m3ˁt - rˁ-stp-n-jmn '' '' rich e2 : n17-n21-n21 :d 40-c10-u6-s29-n28 :d 36 : y1-m23-g43 :d 21-m23-n17 nrt-i tanis zemapeseshtimizaiset werpehti huimentiu 837 bc egypte_louvre_066 . jpg osorkon ii
 osorkon ii 872 & ndash ; 837 bc
osorkon ii

usermaatre setepenamun osorkon ii was a pharaoh of the twenty-second dynasty of ancient egypt and the son of takelot i and queen kapes .
he ruled egypt around 872 bc to 837 bc from tanis , the capital of this dynasty .
after succeeding his father , he was faced with the competing rule of his cousin , king harsiese a , who controlled both thebes and the western oasis of egypt .
osorkon feared the serious challenge posed by harsiese 's kingship to his authority but , when harsiese conveniently died in 860 bc , osorkon ii ensured that this problem would not recur by appointing his own son nimlot c as the next high priest of amun at thebes .
this consolidated the pharaoh 's authority over upper egypt and meant that osorkon ii ruled over a united egypt .
osorkon ii 's reign would be a time of large scale monumental building and prosperity for egypt .
according to a recent paper by karl jansen-winkeln , king harsiese a , and his son -lsb- . .
du -rsb- were only ordinary priests of amun , rather than high priests of amun , as was previously assumed .
the inscription on the koptos lid for -lsb- . .
du -rsb- , harsiese a 's son , never once gives him the title of high priest .
this demonstrates that the high priest harsiese who served is attested in statue cgc 42225 -- which mentions this high priest and is dated explicitly under osorkon ii -- was , in fact , harsiese b .
the high priest harsiese b served osorkon ii in his final 3 years .
this statue was dedicated by the `` letter writer to pharaoh '' , hor ix , who was one of the most powerful men in his time .
however , hor ix almost certainly lived during the end of osorkon ii 's reign since he features on temple j in karnak which was built late in this pharaoh 's reign , along with the serving high priest takelot f -lrb- the son of the high priest nimlot c and therefore , osorkon ii 's grandson -rrb- .
hor ix later served under both shoshenq iii , pedubast i and shoshenq vi .
this means that the high priest harsiese mentioned on statue cgc 42225 must be the second harsiese : harsiese b.
