{{Short description|High Priest of Amun}} {{For|the ancient Egyptian deity called Horemakhet|Horus}} {{Infobox Egyptian dignitary | Name= Haremakhet | Style = High Priest of Amun | Image = Statue CG42204 Legrain.png | Caption= Statue of Haremakhet (CG 42204) | Predecessor= | Successor=Harkhebi | Dynasty= 25th Dynasty | Pharaoh= Taharqa, Tanutamani | Father= Shabaka | Mother= Tabaktenamun? | Wife= | Children=Harkhebi | Burial= }}
'''Haremakhet''' (also '''Horemakhet''' or, in Greek, '''Harmakhis''') was an ancient Kushite prince and High Priest of Amun during the 25th Dynasty.
==Biography== A son of pharaoh Shabaka and possibly of his queen Tabaktenamun, he was appointed by his father as the High Priest of Amun in Thebes and he officiated during the reigns of Taharqa and Tanutamani. Haremakhet's immediate predecessors are unknown and it is possible that the charge of High Priest of Amun was vacant for decades.<ref name=k>{{cite book |last=Kitchen |first=Kenneth A. |author-link= Kenneth Kitchen |date=1996 |title=The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC) |location= Warminster |publisher= Aris & Phillips Limited |page=608 |isbn= 0-85668-298-5 }} § 157</ref> In any case, this once powerful and influential title had long lost its importance in favor of the God's Wife of Amun, a position which at the time of Haremakhet was held by Shepenupet II and then Amenirdis I.
Haremakhet is mainly known from a statue discovered in the Great Temple cachette at Karnak, formerly exhibited at the Cairo Egyptian Museum (CG 42204 / JE 38580) and now at the Nubian Museum of Aswan. On the statue, he is referred as
: King’s son of Shabaka, justified, who loves him, Sole Confidant of king Taharqa, justified, Director of the palace of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Tanutamani, may he live for ever.<ref name=bro>{{cite journal |last=Broekman |first=Gerard P. F. |date=2015 |title= The order of succession between Shabaka and Shabataka. A different view on the chronology of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty |journal= Göttinger Miszellen| volume =245 | pages=17–31 }}</ref>
Noticeably, in this inscription king Shebitku – who was commonly assumed to have ruled between Shabaka and Taharqa – is completely absent. Indeed, the inscription was among the seminal evidence supporting the 2010s chronological switch between the reigns of Shabaka and Shebitku, with Shebitku reigning first and Shabaka succeeding him.<ref name=bro/><ref>{{cite journal |last=Payraudeau |first=Frédéric |date=2014 |title=Retour sur la succession Shabaqo-Shabataqo |journal= NeHeT| volume =1 | pages=115–127 }}</ref>
After his death, Haremakhet was succeeded by his son Harkhebi, who is known to have been in charge as High Priest of Amun at the time of Nitocris I's adoption and later, thus during the reign of the founder of the 26th Dynasty, pharaoh Psamtik I.<ref name=k/>
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