Iyibkhentre
| Iyibkhentre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Drawing of an inscription depicting Iyibkhentre's titulary. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | early 20th century BCE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | 12th Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Iyibkhentre was an
12th Dynasty
.
Biography
He could have been a pretender to the Egyptian throne headquartered in Lower Nubia, during the politically sensitive period within the reign of Mentuhotep IV of the 11th Dynasty and the early reign of Amenemhat I of the 12th Dynasty.[1][3] In fact, both those rulers seem to have had problems in being universally recognized as legitimate pharaohs.
Hungarian
Second Intermediate Period).[4]
Iyibkhentre adopted the
Toshka, all in Lower Nubia.[5]
Like Iyibkhentre, two other rulers based in Nubia, Segerseni and Qakare Ini, likely were pretenders to the Egyptian throne, but the eventual relationships among the trio are unknown.
References
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- ^ ISBN 3-422-00832-2, pp. 64, 195.
- ^ Arthur Weigall, A Report on the Antiquities of Lower Nubia. Cairo 1907, pls. 49–50.
- ^ Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt: history, archaeology and society. London, Duckworth Egyptology, 2006, pp. 27-28.
- ISBN 978-90-04-17197-8, pp. 100–102.
- ISBN 3-491-96053-3, p. 137.
- BIFAO9 (1911), pp. 99–136.