Sehetepkare Intef
Sehetepkare Intef | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sehotepkare Intef, Intef IV, Intef V, Antef, Anyotef, Anjotef, Inyotef | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reign | less than 10 years, between 1759 BC and 1749 BC[3] or c. 1710 BC[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | Imyremeshaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Successor | Seth Meribre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Consort | uncertain, possibly Queen 13th Dynasty |
Sehetepkare Intef was the a minor king of the early
Sehetepkare Intef reigned from Memphis for a short period, certainly less than ten years, between 1759 BC and 1749 BC or c. 1710 BC.[3][4]
Attestations
In the Faiyum, Sehetepkare Intef is attested by the lower half of a seated statue[5] from the temple complex of goddess Renenutet at Medinet Madi.[6]
Sehetepkare Intef is attested in the
Chronological position and reign length
The exact chronological position of Sehetepkare Intef in the 13th Dynasty is not known for certain owing to uncertainties affecting earlier kings of the dynasty. Darrell Baker places him as the twenty-third king of the dynasty, Kim Ryholt as the twenty-fourth and Jürgen von Beckerath as the nineteenth. Furthermore, Ryholt believes Sehetepkare Intef was the fifth ruler bearing that name, making him Intef V, while Aidan Dodson, von Beckerath and Darrell Baker posit that he was Intef IV.[7][8]
The length of his reign is lost in a
The exact circumstances of the end of Intef's reign are unknown but the fact that his successor Seth Meribre did not use
References
- ^ Jürgen von Beckerath: Handbuch der Ägyptischen Königsnamen, 1999, p. 94
- ^ Flinders Petrie:Scarabs and cylinders with names (1917), available copyright-free here, pl. XVIII, n. 13.DE.
- ^ a b c d e f 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), 342, File 13/24.
- ^ a b Thomas Schneider: Lexikon der Pharaonen
- ^ Cairo, Egyptian Museum JE 67834
- ^ Vogliano, Achille (1942). Un'impresa archeologica milanese ai margini orientali del deserto libico. Milan: Regia Università, Istituto d'alta cultura., pls. IX-X
- ^ Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008