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Siamun

10th century BCE · 10th century BCE

Siamun was a king of the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt, ruling from Tanis for about nineteen years in the 10th century BCE. He enlarged the temple of Amun at Tanis and built at Memphis. A relief showing a pharaoh smiting a foe, apparently holding a Philistine axe, suggests a campaign in Philistia, and some scholars identify him with the pharaoh who in the Bible captured Gezer and gave it to Solomon.

Siamun
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Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Siamun. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/siamun
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