Nuya
| Nuya | ||||||||||||
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 Scarab seal of Nuya | ||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | ||||||||||||
| Reign | unknown duration | |||||||||||
| Predecessor | unknown | |||||||||||
| Successor | unknown | |||||||||||
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| Dynasty | uncertain, possibly 14th dynasty | |||||||||||
Nuya was a ruler of some part of
14th Dynasty, reigning after Nehesy and before Yaqub-Har.[2][3] As such, he would have ruled in the 17th century BC from Avaris over the eastern Nile Delta
and possibly over the Western Delta as well.
Alternatively, the Egyptologists Erik Hornung and Elisabeth Staehelin read the inscription on the scarab attributed to Nuya as Khyan, the name of a powerful Hyksos king of the 15th Dynasty c. 1610–1580 BC.[1] This reading is emphatically rejected by the Egyptologist Darrell Baker however, who remains cautious about Nuya's identity.[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-3805302968, p.218, seal No 140
- ^ 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. 287–288