 About his life and the events occurred under his mandate almost nothing is known; as shown before, he continued the practice begun by his predecessor of omitting the name of Takelot I from the Nile levels, possibly because of a presumed dynastic quarrel occurred in Upper Egypt after the death of Osorkon I.A scribe's palette now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (47.123a–g) inscribed for a "High Priest of Amun Smendes", more likely belongs to him rather than Smendes II.A bronze kneeling statuette of a "High Priest of Amun Smendes" exhibited at the Musée royal de Mariemont (ref.