Pepi III
| Pepi III | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seneferankhre Pepy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
![Photography of a scarab of Sneferankhre Pepi III by Flinders Petrie.[1]](/File:SeneferankhraScarabPetrie.PNG) Photography of a scarab of Sneferankhre Pepi III by Flinders Petrie.[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | uncertain chronological position | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | uncertain, Bebiankh (Helck), Nubankhre (von Beckerath) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | uncertain, Nebmaatre (Helck), Anather (von Beckerath) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | 16th dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Seneferankhre Pepi III may have been a
Second Intermediate Period. According to Wolfgang Helck he was the fifth pharaoh of the dynasty.[3] Alternatively, according to Jürgen von Beckerath, he was the thirteenth pharaoh of the dynasty.[4][5]
Because his position in the 16th Dynasty is highly uncertain, it is not clear who were his predecessor and successor.
Seneferankhre Pepi III is only attested by a scarab-shaped seal bearing his name. Egyptologist
First Intermediate Period, noting however that this is a very early date for a scarab seal,[6] since otherwise the earliest scarabs appear only with the reign of Senusret III of the late 12th Dynasty.[7]
References
- ^ Scarabs and cylinders with names (1917), available copyright-free here, pl. X
- ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, p. 291–292, → Pepi.
- ^ Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto, Wolfhart Westendorf, Stele - Zypresse: Volume 6 of Lexikon der Ägyptologie, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1986, Page 1383
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 8772894210.
- ISBN 9781906137489, p. 243