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This should be renamed "Divine Adoratrix of Amun" as that is the proper ending.--Jtle515 (talk) 08:01, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Repetition?

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The article says:

Toward the end of the Third Intermediate Period and the start of the Late Period, during the 25th and 26th Dynasties, the office was at its height both politically and economically. As the role of the high priests of Amun changed from a mostly spiritual to a more 'earthly' role, the Divine Adoratrice became the main focus of the cult of Amun in Thebes. During the twenty-sixth dynasty, the Saite king Psamtik I forcibly reunited Egypt under his rule in March 656 BC and he compelled the God's Wife of Amun serving at the time, Shepenupet II, daughter of Piye, to adopt his daughter as her chosen successor to this position.

When the Napatan kings from Kush, who reigned during the 25th dynasty, spread their realm into Upper Egypt, the reigning God's Wife of Amun, Shepenupet I, was persuaded to adopt Amenirdis, the daughter of Kashta as her heir. This sequence was followed throughout the 25th Dynasty until Egypt was conquered by Psamtek I, who had his daughter, Nitocris I, adopted by Amenirdis II. The Adoption Stelae of Nitocris' shows the ceremony involved by this event, and the prestige of the role:[3]

Don't those two paragraphs mostly say the same thing? Is there any reason I shouldn't delete most of the first one? IAmNitpicking (talk) 14:28, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

IAmNitpicking: Go ahead. Wikipedia articles that aren't well maintained often collect this kind of redundant language, added in by different editors at different times. A. Parrot (talk) 00:02, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]