Pharaoh Psusennes I Was Buried In The Silver Coffin Decorated With Gold

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Tanis, an ancient area in the Nile Delta, Egypt, was an early subject of the archaeologists’ interest. The city’s name was already well known as Soan (biblical Zoan).

Among many tombs of Tanis, there was one that belonged to Psusennes I, the third pharaoh of the 21st Dynasty who ruled from Tanis between 1047 – 1001 BC.

For more than five centuries, looters have plundered most graves of Egyptian pharaohs. One grave, however, was in some way miraculously omitted and it was the tomb of the so-called Silver Pharaoh enshrined in a silver coffin.

The name Psusennes is the Hellenized version, which in Greek means Pasibkhanu  or Egyptian Hor-Pasebakhaenniut (“The Star Appearing in the City”), and his throne name was translated to ”Great are the Manifestations of Ra, chosen of Amun.” Psusennes I was the third king of the Twenty-first Dynasty and is probably the best known of all this dynasty’s kings.

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