Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw
Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wallis Budge of a fragment of a red granite architrave discovered in Bubastis and bearing the name of Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw.[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Reign | 1775–1772 BC (Ryholt); 1–2 years (Baker); 1752-1746 BC (Schneider) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coregency | Hor? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | Hor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Successor | Djedkheperew | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Father | 13th Dynasty |
Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw was an
Attestations
Khabaw is well attested through archaeological finds.
Bubastis, architrave BM EA 1100
Fragments of a red granite architrave measuring 2 feet 6 inches (0.76 m) by 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) bearing his Horus name and prenomen were discovered during excavations at Bubastis in 1891 conducted by Édouard Naville for the Egypt Exploration Society.[1][3] The architrave is now in the British Museum, under the catalog number BM EA 1100.
Tanis, architrave
Another architrave discovered in
Ryholt and Baker believe that both architraves did not originate from the Delta region but from
Cylinder-seals
Khabaw is attested by a cylinder-seal now in the
Nubia, seal-impressions
In Nubia, he is attested by 4 seal impressions from the fortress of Uronarti and one from the fortress of Mirgissa.[2]
King Lists
The Turin canon does not mention Sekhemrekhutawy Khabaw. Nor is he mentioned in any other ancient king list.[8]
According to Ryholt, Khabaw's name was lost in a wsf (literally "missing") lacuna of the Turin canon reported in Column 7, line 17 of the document. The redactor of this king list, which was written in the early
Identity
The
On the other hand, Jürgen von Beckerath identified Khabaw's nomen as Pantjeny, thereby equating Khabaw with
Theories
According to the egyptologist Kim Ryholt, he was the sixteenth king of the dynasty, reigning for three years, from 1775 BC until 1772 BC.[2] Thomas Schneider, on the other hand, places his reign from 1752 BC until 1746 BC.[13] Alternatively, Jürgen von Beckerath sees him as the third king of the dynasty.[14][15][9] As a ruler of the early 13th Dynasty, Khabaw would have ruled from Memphis to Aswan and possibly over the western Nile Delta.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Wallis Budge: Hieroglyphic Texts, V (1914) see p. 7 and pl. 18, available copyright-free online.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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.
- ^ E. Naville: Bubastis, 1891, 15, pl. XXXIII, available copyright-free online
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 289-290
- ^ See a similar situation for the colossi of Imyremeshaw.
- ^ Flinders Petrie: Scarabs and cylinders with names (1917), available copyright-free here, pl. XVIII
- ^ a b Seal of Khabaw, catalog of the Petrie Museum.
- ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 166-167
- ^ a b Jürgen von Beckerath: Handbuch der Ägyptischen Königsnamen, MÄS 49, Philip Von Zabern. (1999)
- ISBN 978-90-429-2228-0. p. 247, 268
- ^ ISBN 3-447-02489-5
- ISBN 9789042917309, p. 263-274.
- ISBN 3-491-96053-3, p. 255 and 259
- ^ 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