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Aakheperre Setepenre Osorkon the Elder was the fifth king of the twenty-first dynasty of Egypt and was the first pharaoh of Libyan extraction in Egypt. He is also sometimes known as "Osochor," following Manetho's ''Aegyptiaca''. ==Biography== Osorkon the Elder was the son of Shoshenq A, the ''Great Chief of the Ma'' by the latter's wife Mehtenweshkhet who is given the prestigious title of 'King's Mother' in a document. Osochor was the brother of Nimlot A, the Great Chief of the Ma, and Tentshepeh A the daughter of the Great Chief of the Ma and, thus, an uncle of Shoshenq I, founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty. His existence was doubted by most scholars until Eric Young established in 1963 that the induction of a temple priest named Nespaneferhor in ''Year 2 I Shemu day 20'' under a certain king named Aakheperre Setepenre—in fragment 3B, line 1-3 of the Karnak Priest Annals —occurred one generation prior to the induction of Hori, Nespaneferhor's son in Year 17 of Siamun, which is also recorded in the same annals.〔Eric Young, "Some Notes on the Chronology and Genealogy of the Twenty-first Dynasty", ''Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt'' 2 (1963), pp. 99–112〕 Young argued that this king Aakheperre Setepenre was the unknown Osochor. This hypothesis was not fully accepted by all Egyptologists at that time, however. But in a 1976-1977 paper, Jean Yoyotte noted that a Libyan king named Osorkon was the son of Shoshenq A by the Lady Mehtenweshkhet, with Mehtenweshkhet being explicitly titled the "King's Mother" in a certain genealogical document.〔Jean Yoyotte, "Osorkon fils de Mehytouskhé: Un pharaon oublié?", ''Bulletin de la Société française d'égyptologie'', 77–78 (1976-1977), pp .39–54〕 Since none of the other kings named Osorkon had a mother named Mehtenweshkhet, it was conclusively established that Aakheperre Setepenre was indeed Manetho's Osochor, whose mother was Mehtenweshkhet. The Lady Mehtenweshet A was also the mother of Nimlot A, Great Chief of the Meshwesh and, thus, Shoshenq I's grandmother. In 1999 Chris Bennett made a case for a Queen Karimala known from an inscription in the temple of Semna being his daughter.〔Chris Bennett, "Queen Karimala, Daughter of Osochor?" ''Göttinger Misszellen'' 173 (1999), pp. 7-8〕 She is called both 'King's Daughter" and "King's Wife". Her name suggests she may have been Libyan. Given the date of the inscription (a year 14), she might have been the queen of either king Siamun or king Psusennes II. Bennett prefers a marriage to Siamun, because in that case she could have taken over the position of Viceroy of Kush Neskhons as a religious figurehead in Nubia after the death of the latter in year 5 of king Siamun. A faience seal and a block naming a king Osorkon with the names ''Aakheperre Setepenamun'', ''Osorkon Meryamun'' were for a long time attributed to Osorkon IV; however, this attribution has been criticized by Frederic Payraudeau in 2000, who pointed out that those objects more likely referred to Osorkon the Elder.〔Frederic Payraudeau, "L'identite du premier et du dernier Osorkon", ''Göttinger Misszellen'' 178 (2000), pp. 75–80.〕 This would lead to attribute to his throne name ''Aakheperre'' both the epithets ''Setepenre'' and ''Setepenamun''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Osorkon the Elder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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