Khuiqer
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 Lintel with the cartouche of Khuiqer, from Abydos. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Khuiqer was an
Second Intermediate Period
.
Dynastic collocation
After the finding of the lintel, Petrie believed the royal name to be Uaqerre but was doubtful about his datation, and simply placed him between the
Egyptologist Detlef Franke proposed the existence of the Abydos Dynasty[3] (a dynasty of local pharaohs who might have shortly ruled upon the Abydene territory during the Second Intermediate Period), he placed Khuiqer inside of it. Jürgen von Beckerath attributed him to the Second Intermediate Period too, following the claim that the block came from a building of Senusret I, although he admitted that Khuiqer's Horus name, Merut, seemed peculiar for this period.[2] This Horus name was also the main topic for Kim Ryholt's attribution: he argued that Merut is too simple when compared to the Horus names of the Second Intermediate Period, which usually are composed or two or even three different words. Ryholt then suggested an earlier placement for Khuiqer, at an imprecise time during the First Intermediate Period.[4]
References
- ^ a b Henri Gauthier, Le Livre des rois d'Égypte, recueil de titres et protocoles royaux, 1, Des origines à la XIIe dynastie, (= MIFAO 17) Cairo, 1907, p. 192.
- ^ a b c Jürgen von Beckerath, Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten (=Ägyptologische Forschungen, 23). Augustin, Glückstadt / New York, 1964, p. 70.
- ^ Detlef Franke, Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches. Teil II: Die sogenannte Zweite Zwischenzeit Altägyptens, In Orientalia, 57 (1988), p. 259.
- ISBN 87-7289-421-0, p. 163 n. 595.