Sekhemkare
- See Amenemhat, for other individuals with this name.
Amenemhat V | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reign | 1796 – 1793 BC (Ryholt) 1746 – 1743 BC (Franke) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | Nerikare (Ryholt) Pantjeny (Beckerath) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Successor | Ameny Qemau (Ryholt) Sehotepibre (Beckerath) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Children | possibly 13th Dynasty |
Sekhemkare Amenemhat V was an
The identity of Amenemhat V is debated by a minority of Egyptologists, as he could be the same person as
Attestations
Amenemhat V is attested on column 7, line 7 of the
In addition, Amenemhat V is attested by a single artefact contemporaneous with his lifetime, a statue of him from Elephantine, originally set up in the Temple of Satet and inscribed with the following dedication:
The good god, lord of the two lands, lord of the ceremonies, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Sekhemkare, the son of Ra Amenemhat, beloved of
Satet, lady of Elephantine, may he live for ever.
The head and arms of the statue were discovered in the 19th century in the ruins of a temple built to honor a nomarch named Heqaib and are in Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The body of the statue bearing the above inscription was discovered in the year 1932 and is now in the Aswan Museum.[1][2]
Amenemhat V is also attested from a Legal document found in Kahun, that dates to year 3 of his reign.[3]
Theories
There is a debate between Egyptologists as whether Sekhemkare Amenemhat V is the same king as Sekhemkare Sonbef, whom Kim Ryholt,
See also
- List of Pharaohs
References
- ^ a b c d 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), 336-337, file 13/2 and 13/4.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008
- ^ Petrie, Flinders (1898). Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob : (principally of the Middle Kingdom). Quaritch. pp. 19–22, pl. IX.
- ^ a b Jürgen von Beckerath: Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten, Glückstadt, 1964
- ^ a b Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägyptens, Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 46. Mainz am Rhein, 1997
- ^ Detlef Franke: Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches (12.-18. Dynastie) Teil 1 : Die 12. Dynastie, in Orientalia 57 (1988)
- ^ New arrangement of the 13th Dynasty, on digital Egypt.
- ISBN 90-429-1730-X, 263-64