Nebiriau II
| Nebiriau II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nebiryerawet, Nebiryraw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Statuette of Harpocrates from the Ptolemaic period, believed to bear the throne name of Nebiriau II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Reign | c.1600 BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Nebiryraw I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Semenre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Father | Nebiryraw I? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 16th Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nebiriau II (also Nebiryraw II, Nebiryerawet II) was an
Second Intermediate Period
.
Identity
He is commonly assumed by some Egyptologists to be the son of his predecessor Nebiryraw I, given the rarity of the name Nebiriau in Egyptian historical sources.[2] Unlike his presumed father who ruled Upper Egypt for 26 years, he was an obscure king who is completely unattested by contemporary archaeological sources.[3]
The only two non-contemporary attestations for Nebiriau II are the mention of his personal name on the Ramesside
Ptolemaic period i.e. about 1500 years after the people named on the statuette had lived.[4]
Nebiriau II was succeeded by an equally obscure king named
Seuserenre Bebiankh
who is given 12 years in the Turin Canon.
References
- ISBN 3-8053-2591-6., pp. 126-127
- ^ Kim Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c.1800-1550 B.C, Museum Tusculanum Press, (1997), p.155
- ^ Ryholt, p.201
- ^ ISBN 0920168078, p. 55