Hori, son of Nespaneferhor, is inducted into…

Hori, son of Nespaneferhor, is inducted into the Priesthood at Karnak during the reign of Neterkheperre or Netjerkheperre-setepenamun Siamun, the sixth pharaoh of Egypt during the Twenty-first dynasty, a Year Seventeen I Shemu day [lost], as recorded in an inscription in fragment 3B, lines 3-5 dated to Siamun from the Karnak Priestly Annals.

This date was a lunar Tepi Shemu feast day, and based on the calculation of this lunar Tepi Shemu feast, Year Seventeen of Siamun has been shown by the German Egyptologist Rolf Krauss to be equivalent to 970 BCE.

Hence, Siamun would have taken the throne in 986 BCE, about sixteen years earlier.

A stela dated to Siamun's Year Sixteen records a land-sale between some minor priests of Ptah at Memphis.

The Year Seventeen inscription is an important palaeographical development because it is the first time in Egyptian recorded history that the word pharaoh is employed as a title and linked directly to a king's royal name—as in Pharaoh Siamun here.

References to Pharaoh Psusennes (Psusennes II here), Pharaoh Shoshenq, Pharaoh Osorkon and so forth will henceforth become commonplace.

Prior to Siamun's reign and all throughout the Middle and New Kingdom, the word pharaoh referred only to the office of the king.