Rudamun

Rudamun
Horus name	Neb-maa-cheru Nb-m3ˁ-ḫrw lord of triumph
Sideline	Heken-en-maat Ḥkn-n-m3ˁt Who is happy about the Maat
Throne name	User-maat-Re Setep-en-Amun Wsr-m3ˁt-Rˁ Stp-n-Jmn The righteousness (mate) of Re , chosen of Amun, is powerful
Proper name	Meriamun Rudamun (Meri Amun Rud Amun) Mr.j JmnRwḏ Jmn lover of Amun, Amun is strong (strong / successful)

Rudamun I (sometimes also Rudjamun ; after Schneider Rudjamun (II.)) Was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh (king) of the 23rd Dynasty ( Third Intermediate Period ). When exactly he reigned is not clear, the assumptions are from around 754 to around 735/730 BC. Chr.

ancestry

Family:

• Father: Osorkon III.
• Mother: Tentsai
• Siblings: Takelot III.
• Wives: Tentsai

With his wife and mother Tentsai he fathered a daughter Irbastetudjanefu. She is the wife of Prince Padeftjauemauibastet of Herakleopolis .

biography

As a builder

There is only little construction activity in Karnak (Temple of Osiris ) and perhaps Medinet Habu (also vessel; coffin fragment from the grave of a descendant of Rudamun)

literature

• Karl Jansen-Winkeln : The Chronology of the Third Intermediate Period: Dyns 22-24. In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-11385-5 , pp. 234-264 ( online ).
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 242.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ largely hieroglyphs and inscription after Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbuch der Ägyptischen Könignames. 2nd edition, von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2591-6 , p. 197.

Web links

Commons : Rudamun  - collection of images, videos and audio files

predecessor	Office	successor
Takelot III.	Pharaoh of Egypt 23rd Dynasty	Ini