father dynasty predecessor successor spouse role article_title name reign
pinedjem i concurrent with the 21st dynasty masaherta menkheperre djedmutesankh -lrb- ? -rrb- high priest of amun djedkhonsuefankh
 djedkhonsuefankh 1046 & ndash ; 1045 bc
djedkhonsuefankh

djedkhonsuefankh was a high priest of amun in thebes believed to have been in office from 1046-1045 bc .
it is often assumed that he was a son of pinedjem i who succeeded his brother masaherta during a time of great turmoil in the city of thebes .
von beckerath has even suggested that it is possible that he died a violent death , accounting for his very short reign .
kitchen considered this possibility as well , but also stated that `` this may be an over-dramatic interpretation of his brief rule '' .
all we actually know of his existence is the bare mention of his name on the coffin of his son -lrb- now lost -rrb- .
there it reads , according to torr : '' -lsb- ... -rsb- re , son of the first prophet of amun , djed-khons-ef-ankh , son of the lord of the two lands , pinedjem , beloved of amun , first prophet of amun '' , with the name pinedjem enclosed in a cartouche .
djedkhonsuefankh is supposed to have been succeeded as high priest by his brother menkheperre , which seems to imply that his son '' -lsb- ... -rsb- re '' either predeceased him , was too young to succeed or was simply passed over for other reasons .
however , andrzej niwiński has suggested that djedkhonsuefankh was not the son of pinedjem i , but rather of pinedjem ii , and as such the great grandson of pinedjem i niwiński identifies him with the main official mentioned with the burials of neskhons in year 5 of king siamun and of pinedjem ii in year 10 of the same king .
he postulates that psusennes ii -lrb- in this model his brother -rrb- , who probably succeeded his father pinedjem ii as high priest and succeeded in uniting this title with that of king had djed-khons-ef-ankh act as his deputy in thebes .
the title of high priest on his coffin would then be given posthumously by his son '' -lsb- ... -rsb- re '' niwiński also points out that theophoric names as djed-khons-ef-ankh mainly appear very late in the 21st dynasty .
djedkhonsuefankh 's wife is likely to have been djedmutesankh , a singer of amun , who was buried in tomb mma60 in deir el-bahari .
