{{Short description|Theban High Priest of Amun}} {{Infobox Egyptian dignitary |Name=Nesbanebdjed II | Image = File:Nesbanebdjed II statuette Petrie.png | Caption= Statuette depicting a ''High Priest of Amun Smendes'', possibly Smendes II |Predecessor=Menkheperre |Style=High Priest of Amun |Successor=Pinedjem II |Father=Menkheperre |Mother=Isetemkheb III |Wife=Henuttawy C, Takhentdjehuti |Children=Neskhons, Isetemkheb E |Tenure=992–990 BC}} '''Smendes II''' was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes in Ancient Egypt. He briefly governed from around 992 to 990 BC.<ref name="D207">{{dodson}}, p.207</ref>
==Biography== The name ''Smendes'' is a hellenization of the Egyptian name '''''Nesbanebdjed''''' (''"He of the ram, lord of Mendes"''), while the ordinal number distinguishes him from the founder of the 21st Dynasty Smendes I, and from the later, namesake High Priest of Amun, Smendes III.
Smendes was one of the sons of High Priest Menkheperre and Princess Isetemkheb, the daughter of Psusennes I.<ref name="D201">Dodson & Hilton, pp.200-201</ref> He married his sister Henuttawy C and had a daughter, Isetemkheb E; another wife, Takhentdjehuti bore him Neskhons, who would be the wife of his brother and successor Pinedjem II.<ref name="D201" /><ref>Aidan Dodson, ''Monarchs of the Nile'', American Univ. in Cairo Press 2000, p.160</ref>
His pontificate was short and left few traces, missing, for instance from the annals of Egyptian historian Manetho. He is mentioned on an inscription in Karnak, on mummy bandages and on a few bracelets found on the mummy of Psusennes I. Two extra objects bear the name of a ''High Priest of Amun Smendes'' but it is not possible to determine if these refer to Smendes II or the later Smendes III: these are a scribe's palette now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (47.123a–g),<ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/545113?rpp=30&pg=1&ft=smendes&pos=2&imgNo=0&tabName=gallery-label Palette inscribed for Smendes, High Priest of Amun, at the MMA]</ref><ref name="D207" /> and a bronze kneeling statuette exhibited at the Musée royal de Mariemont (ref. B242).<ref>Claire Derriks, ''Choix d'œuvres 50'', Égypte. Mariemont, 1990, n.26</ref>
He was succeeded by his brother Pinedjem II.
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