Merkheperre
Merkheperre | ||||||||||||||||
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Mercheperre, Ra-mer-kheper | ||||||||||||||||
Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||||
Reign | unknown duration, some time between 1663 BC and 1649 BC [2] | |||||||||||||||
Predecessor | Mer[...]re (Ryholt) or Mershepsesre Ini II (von Beckerath) | |||||||||||||||
Successor | Merkare | |||||||||||||||
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Dynasty | 13th dynasty |
Merkheperre was an
Attestations
Merkheperre appears on the Turin canon, a king list compiled in the early Ramesside period.[3] According to the egyptologist Kim Ryholt, the canon gives his prenomen on the 8th column, line 17[2] (Gardiner entry 7.22 [4]). The Turin papyrus is damaged on the section covering the late 13th Dynasty and Merkheperre's reign length is lost in a lacuna.
Merkheperre is also attested by two artefacts dating to his reign: a glazed weight of grey
Chronological position
The exact chronological position of Merkheperre is not known for certain as the damaged state of the Turin canon only allows for conjectural reconstructions of the late 13th dynasty. According to Ryholt he was the forty-seventh ruler of the dynasty, while Baker sees him as the forty-sixth and von Beckerath as the fifty-seventh.[2][3][7][8] All agree that he was succeeded by Merkare, however von Beckerath proposed that his predecessor was Mershepsesre Ini II, when a new reconstruction of the Turin canon led Ryholt and Baker to propose that his predecessor was Mer[...]re.
References
- ^ Henry Reginald Hall: Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs, etc., in the British Museum (1913) available copyright-free online scarab num. 200, see p. 21
- ^ a b c d e K.S.B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997, excerpts available online here.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 214
- ISBN 0-900416-48-3.
- ^ Weight of Merkheperre on Digital Egypt for Universities
- ^ Catalogue of the Petrie museum
- ^ Jürgen von Beckerath: Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten, Glückstadt, 1964
- ^ Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägyptens, Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 46. Mainz am Rhein, 1997