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Shoshenq IV

900 BC - 785 BC

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Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq IV was an ancient Egyptian ruler of the 22nd Dynasty, between the reigns of Shoshenq III and Pami. In 1986, David Rohl proposed that there were two king Shoshenqs bearing the prenomen Hedjkheperre – (i) the well-known founder of the dynasty, Hedjkheperre Shoshenq I, and (ii) a later pharaoh from the second half of the dynasty, whom Rohl called Hedjkheperre Shoshenq (b) due to his exact position in the dynasty being unknown. Following a proposal (first suggested to him by Pieter Gert van der Veen in 1984), the British Egyptologist Aidan Dodson in 1993 supported the new king's existence by demonstrating that the earlier Hedjkheperre Shoshenq bore simple epithets in his titulary, whereas the later Hedjkheperre Shoshenq's epithets were more complex.Dodson suggested that the ruler that Kenneth Kitchen, in his standard work on Third Intermediate Period chronology, had numbered Shoshenq IV – bearing the prenomen Usermaatre – should be removed from the 22nd Dynasty and replaced by Rohl's Hedjkheperre Shoshenq (b), renumbering the latter as Shoshenq IV. At the same time the old Usermaatre Shoshenq IV was renumbered as Shoshenq VI. Dodson's historical summary of the new King Shoshenq IV's discovery and his supportive evidence for that king's independent existence from Hedjkheperre Shoshenq I appeared in an article entitled ‘A New King Shoshenq Confirmed?’ in 1993.Rohl and Dodson's combined arguments for the existence of a new 22nd Dynasty Tanite king called Hedjkheperre Shoshenq IV are accepted by Egyptologists today, including Jurgen von Beckerath and Kitchen – the latter in the preface to the third edition of his book on The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt.As Dodson pointed out, while Shoshenq IV shared the same prenomen as his illustrious ancestor Shoshenq I, he is distinguished from Shoshenq I by his use of an especially long nomen – Shoshenq-meryamun-sibast-netjerheqaon which featured both the sibast ('son of Bast') and netjerheqaon ('god-ruler of Heliopolis') epithets. These two epithets were only gradually employed by the 22nd Dynasty pharaohs, starting from the reign of Osorkon II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shoshenq IV has received more than 124,929 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Shoshenq IV is the 13,140th most popular politician (down from 11,645th in 2019).

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Among politicians, Shoshenq IV ranks 13,140 out of 15,577Before him are Maria Zakharova, Bogdan Borusewicz, Larry O'Brien, Sames II Theosebes Dikaios, Gérard Larcher, and Baba-aha-iddina. After him are Spyridon Lambros, Salmon P. Chase, Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Gopala I, Ottokar I of Styria, and Mohammad Natsir.

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Among people born in 900 BC, Shoshenq IV ranks 30Before him are Sarduri I, Alara of Nubia, Pami, Ben-Hadad III, Iuput II, and Baba-aha-iddina.  Among people deceased in 785 BC, Shoshenq IV ranks 1

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