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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Harsiese A

1000 BC - 860 BC

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King Hedjkheperre Setepenamun Harsiese, or Harsiese A, is viewed by the Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen in his Third Intermediate Period of Egypt to be both a High Priest of Amun and the son of the High Priest of Amun, Shoshenq C. The archaeological evidence does suggest that he was indeed Shoshenq C's son. However, recent published studies by the German Egyptologist Karl Jansen-Winkeln in JEA 81 (1995) have demonstrated that all the monuments of the first (king) Harsiese show that he was never a High Priest of Amun in his own right. Rather both Harsiese A and his son [...du] – whose existence is known from inscriptions on the latter's funerary objects at Coptos – are only attested as Ordinary Priests of Amun. Instead, while Harsiese A was certainly an independent king at Thebes during the first decade of Osorkon II's kingship, he was a different person from a second person who was also called Harsiese: Harsiese B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harsiese A has received more than 64,013 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Harsiese A is the 2,155th most popular religious figure (down from 1,842nd in 2019).

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  • 64k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Harsiese A ranks 2,155 out of 2,238Before him are Honorius of Canterbury, Ignatius IV of Antioch, Ratramnus, Jude, brother of Jesus, Seaxburh of Ely, and Aleksander Kakowski. After him are Calgacus, Pedro Pardo de Cela, Irmã Dulce, Hugh O'Flaherty, Peter III of Alexandria, and Wolfgang Haas.

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Among people born in 1000 BC, Harsiese A ranks 31Before him are Jair, Ashur-dan II, Tiglath-Pileser II, King Gong of Zhou, King Yi of Zhou, and Ben-Hadad I.  Among people deceased in 860 BC, Harsiese A ranks 3Before him are Athaliah and Jehoahaz of Israel.

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