Shoshenq V

Attestations

Shoshenq's Year 11 is recorded at Memphis, commemorating the death, burial and replacement of the Apis bull which was installed in the Year 2 of Pami. Shoshenq is also attested in his years 7 and 15 19, 30, and 37 These buildings were later dismantled and a sacred lake was made in their place. Yet, from the remains of the buildings, it is known that Shoshenq celebrated the festival by adopting brand-new Horus, Nebty and Golden Horus names, and by adding complements to his Throne and personal names, in sharp contrast with the plain and simple titulary used in most of his monuments (the one reported in the box ) which was possibly a form of archaism. Undated monuments of Shoshenq V were unearthed at Tell el-Yahudiyeh. However, this reconstruction is complicated by the presence of the poorly known pharaoh Pedubast II who is sometimes placed as Shoshenq's successor. After Shoshenq V's death, the political fragmentation in the Delta region greatly accelerated as internal political struggles by local princes such as Tefnakht of Sais, Iuput II of Leontopolis and Nimlot of Hermopolis weakened and ended the 22nd Dynasty's control over Lower Egypt thereby creating a power vacuum since there was no local central power. This opened the way for Kushite intervention under Piye around 724 BC, as the squabbling local rulers failed to unify against the southern invasion by this Nubian king...and eventually, led to the creation of the Nubian Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt under Piye's successor, Shebitku.