Haremhab and the Crown Prince Sheshonk. According to this
reconstruction, Haremhab began his career under the last kings
of the Libyan Dynasty. We get a first glimpse of him in the tomb
of the prince Sheshonk, son of Osorkon II and his wife Karoma.
The prince, named as successor to his father, died young, still
during his fathers reign, and never assumed the royal diadem.
The king built for him a funerary chamber in Memphis, where the
prince had served in his lifetime as the high priest of Ptah.
The excavations of Samaria, discussed above, revealed that the
Libyan king Osorkon II was not a contemporary of Ahab, as is
usually asserted, but reigned after the time of Jeroboam IIi.e.,
after ca. -744, which marks the death of Jeroboam II, but before
the destruction of Samaria by the Assyrians in -722. The tomb
was discovered in 1942, and its clearance and publication were
entrusted to Ahmad Badawi.(1) At the entrance to the tomb, on
the lintel of the doorway, Badawi found an incised relief
showing Haremhab kneelin