Khaankhre Sobekhotep

Khaankhre Sobekhotep
Khaankhre Sobekhotep
Sobekhotep I (or II is some studies)
	the Louvre
Pharaoh
Reign	three to four-and-a-half years, ca. 1735 BC
Predecessor	Nedjemibre
Successor	Renseneb
Horus name
Horus name
	Sematawy; Smȝ-tȝ.wj; He who unifies the two lands
	;
Nebty name
	Djedkhaw; Ḏd-ḫˁjw; He whose apparitions are enduring
Golden Horus
Prenomen (Praenomen)
Nomen
Monuments	Chapel in Abydos
Dynasty	13th Dynasty

Khaankhre Sobekhotep I (now believed to be Sobekhotep II or Sobekhotep IV in some newer studies) was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.

Attestations

At Abydos, Khaankhre Sobekhotep is attested by a relief from a chapel.^[2]^[3] Of Unknown Provenance, is a fragment of an inscribed column.^[4] His name Khaankhre Sobekhotep also appears on a granite statue pedestal.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Non-contemporary attestations

The

Karnak king list preserves his prenomen Khaankhre. This list of kings was made during the reign of Thutmose III

.

The

Sobekhotep I

. This part of the king list is also so fragmentary and uncertain that its hard to interpret. Other king lists, like the Abydos King List simply omitted all rulers between Amenemhat IV and Ahmose I - perhaps because they were minor kings who only controlled some estates or parts of the country in competition with other claimants.

Theories

While Khaankhre Sobekhotep is regarded as a ruler of the 13th Dynasty, his chronological position is debated.

His reign was most likely short. Ryholt has suggested three to four-and-a-half years.[6]

According to egyptologists Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker, Khaankhre Sobekhotep was the 13th pharaoh of the dynasty and had a short reign ca. 1735 BC. Alternatively, Jürgen von Beckerath sees him as the 16th pharaoh of the dynasty.^[8]^[9]

Ryholt mentions that Sobekhotep I may be identical with Sobekhotep II, who is only mentioned as Sobekhotep in the Turin King List.^[6] Others, like Dodson, consider Khaankhre Sobekhotep II and Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep I to be two different rulers from the 13th Dynasty,^[10] while Bierbrier lists Khaankhre Sobekhotep I and Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep II.^[11]

Recently Simon Connor and Julien Siesse investigated the style of the king's monument and argue that he reigned much later than previously thought (after Sobekhotep IV – who would become Sobekhotep III).^[12]

References

Media related to Sebekhotep Khaankhre at Wikimedia Commons

^ Inventory of the Louvre: B.3–5, C.9–10; E. Bresciani: Un edificio di Kha-anekh-Ra Sobekhotep ad Abdido. In: Egitto e Vicino Oriente, vol. II, 1979, pp. 1–20
^ Paris, Louvre Museum, B. 3-5, C. 9-10
^ Bresciani 1979
^ London, Petrie Museum UC 14411
^ London, British Museum BM 69497, formerly Amherst Collection
^ ^a ^b ^c K.S.B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), 339, File 13/13.
^ C. N. Reeves, Miscellanea Epigraphica, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Bd. 13, (1986), pp. 165–170
^ 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
ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9
, 2008, p. 445

^ Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American Univ in Cairo Press, 2000, p 207

ISBN 978-0-8108-5794-0
. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

^ Simon Connor, Julien Siesse: Nouvelle datation pour le roi Sobekhotep Khâânkhrê, in: Revue d'Égyptologie 66 (2015), 2015, 227-247; compare Throne Names Patterns as a Clue for the Internal Chronology of the 13th to 17th Dynasties (Late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period), GM 246 (2015), p. 75-98 798 online

Preceded by
Nedjemibre

Thirteenth Dynasty
Succeeded by
Renseneb

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[1] Inventory of the Louvre: B.3–5, C.9–10; E. Bresciani: Un edificio di Kha-anekh-Ra Sobekhotep ad Abdido. In: Egitto e Vicino Oriente, vol. II, 1979, pp. 1–20

[2] Paris, Louvre Museum, B. 3-5, C. 9-10

[3] Bresciani 1979

[4] London, Petrie Museum UC 14411

[5] London, British Museum BM 69497, formerly Amherst Collection

[Ryholt-6] K.S.B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), 339, File 13/13.

[7] C. N. Reeves, Miscellanea Epigraphica, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Bd. 13, (1986), pp. 165–170

[ryholt-8] 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

[encyclo-9] ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9
, 2008, p. 445

[10] Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American Univ in Cairo Press, 2000, p 207

[Bierbrier-11] ISBN 978-0-8108-5794-0
. Retrieved 8 January 2014.

[12] Simon Connor, Julien Siesse: Nouvelle datation pour le roi Sobekhotep Khâânkhrê, in: Revue d'Égyptologie 66 (2015), 2015, 227-247; compare Throne Names Patterns as a Clue for the Internal Chronology of the 13th to 17th Dynasties (Late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period), GM 246 (2015), p. 75-98 798 online

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Attestations

Non-contemporary attestations

Theories

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References