Seth Meribre
Seth Meribre | ||||||||||||||
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Seth Merybre, Set | ||||||||||||||
Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||
Reign | less than 10 years, probably less than 5 years, ending 1749 BC[1] | |||||||||||||
Predecessor | Sehetepkare Intef | |||||||||||||
Successor | Sobekhotep III | |||||||||||||
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Dynasty | 13th Dynasty |
Seth Meribre was a little known king during the
Seth Meribre may have been the twenty-fourth pharaoh and reigned from Memphis, ending in 1749 BC[1] or c. 1700 BC.[2] The length of his reign is not known for certain; the Egyptologist Kim Ryholt proposes that he reigned for a short time, certainly less than ten years.[1]
Attestations
Seth Meribre is only attested for certain on the Turin canon, column 7, line 23 (Alan Gardiner and Jürgen von Beckerath: col. 6 row 23).[3]
Ryholt suggests that stele JE35256, discovered in Abydos and now in the Egyptian Museum, was originally inscribed with the nomen, prenomen and Horus name of Seth Meribre. The stele, bearing a date year 4, was later usurped by Neferhotep I.[1] Previously, historian Anthony Leahy[4] has argued that the stele was erected by Wegaf rather than Seth Meribre, an opinion shared by Darrell Baker.[3]
At Medamud, northeast of Luxor, a temple has yielded many ruined structures and architectural remains. Some may have been erected by Seth Meribre, but were subsequently usurped by his successor Sobekhotep III.[3] In particular, a lintel from Medamud and now in the Egyptian Museum, JE 44944, bears almost-erased signs corresponding to Seth Meribre's nomen.[citation needed]
Theories
The Egyptologists Darrell Baker and Kim Ryholt place Seth Meribre as the twenty-fourth ruler of the 13th Dynasty, while Jürgen von Beckerath sees him as the twentieth king.[5] These authors agree, however, that Seth Meribre probably usurped the throne at the expense of his predecessor, Sehetepkare Intef.[3]
The duration of Seth Meribre's reign is lost in a lacuna of the Turin canon, except for the end "... [and] 6 days". Kim Ryholt gives a total of 10 years for the combined reigns of Imyremeshaw, Sehetepkare Intef and Seth Meribre.[1] Furthermore, following Papyrus Boulaq 18, there are reasons to believe that either Imyremeshaw or Sehetepkare Intef reigned for over five years, thus leaving less than 5 years to Seth Meribre.
Jürgen von Beckerath believes that Seth Meribre can be identified with a king mentioned on
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Thomas Schneider: Lexikon der Pharaonen, Albatros, 2002
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 406
- ^ Leahy, Anthony (1989). "A Protective Measure at Abydos in the Thirteenth Dynasty". Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 75: 41–60.
- ^ Jürgen von Beckerath: Handbuch der ägyptischen Konigsnamen, Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 20, Mainz.