Post by anansi on Dec 21, 2012 1:46:29 GMT -5
Panehsy who was the viceroy of Nahasu, marched north with Kushite troops, possibly at the request of Ramesses XI, to restore order in Thebes. However, whether he did so on behalf of the king or on his own seems questionable due to alter events, which might even indicate that the High Priest, Amenhotep, was perhaps, more under the control of Ramesses IX than might be otherwise evidenced. Apparently, in order to feed his men and perhaps even to help limit the power of the High Priest, Panehsy was either given, or perhaps usurped, the office of "overseer of the granaries". Obviously, this would have certainly brought him into conflict with the priesthood of Amun, for that temple owned the bulk of the land and its produce. This event escalated into a civil war, as, during a period of eight or nine months sometime between years 17 and 19 of Ramesses XI's reign, Paneshy besieged the high priest at the fortified temple of Medinet Habu.
We do not know if the High Priest, Amenhotep, survived this attack, but strangely, he may have appealed to Ramesses XI for protection, which appears to have resulted in an even wider civil war. We are told that Paneshy marched north, reaching as far as Hardai in Middle Egypt, which he sacked. He may have even driven farther north, but his advance was eventually met by the king's army and he was driven back. Paneshy eventually had to retreat to Nahasu where he apparently caused trouble for some years before his death.
In the interval, the army of the Pharaoh, under the leadership of a general Piankh , drove on into Thebes, where he too seems to have usurped power from the king. He seems to have taken on the titles of Paneshy and even styled himself as vizier. Whether the former High Priest died in the siege at Medinet Habu or not, after his death, Paneshy also became high priest of Amun. With these high offices, General Piankh began a period of the wehem mesut, or "renaissance", a term used by earlier kings at the beginning of the 12th and 19th Dynasties to indicate that the empire had been reborn after a period of chaos. Now, Theban documents began to be dated by the years of the renaissance rather than that of the King in Piramesses, so we find correspondence between years one and ten of the renaissance and the king's reignal years nineteen through twenty-eight.
After the death of Piankh, his son-in-law named Herihor took over his offices and assumed control of the south.
www.touregypt.net/hdyn20a.htm
Ok two names stands out the Paneshsy..who's name suggest Kushite extraction and he was in fact viceroy of Kush or the King's son of Kush,and Piankh..my question is did these two men laid the fundation for the eventual conquest of Kemet couple of centuries later?..did Paneshy's decendants eventually became Pharoahs in both Kush and Kemet,and Pianhk's decendants eventually linked up..some how giving the later Kushite Pharoahs..the further legitimacy other than Temple of Amon at Jebel Barkal?.
Please note that I made the following alterations from the TourEgypt link above,I replaced Nubia with Nahasu and Kush,as I believe Nubia is a blanket term used to lump and dump various polities of the south regardless of their relationship to eachother and to Kemet itself go here for more info egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=bag&action=display&thread=495
Herihor died around Year 6 of the Whm Mswt (Year 24 of Ramesses XI) and was succeeded as High Priest by Piankh. Piankh initiated one or two unsuccessful campaigns into Nubia to wrest control of this gold-producing region from Pinehesy's hands, but his efforts were ultimately fruitless as Nubia slipped permanently out of Egypt's grasp. This watershed event worsened Egypt's woes, because she had now lost control of all her imperial possessions and was denied access to a regular supply of Nubian gold.