Hor

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Plan of the tomb of king Hor
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Plan of the tomb of king Hor

Birth Name: Hor

Throne Name: Auibre

Hor was an Egyptian king of the 13th Dynasty. He appears in the Turin King List as Aut-ib-Rê. He most likely reigned only for a short time, not long enough to prepare a pyramid, which was in this dynasty still the common burial place for kings.

Hor is mainly known from his burial in a shaft tomb found at Dahshur next to the pyramid of king Amenemhat III. The tomb was found essentially intact and still contained the partly gilded coffin of the king, a naos with a statue, some jewelry, the canopic box with canopic vessels, two inscribed stelae and several other objects.

Next to the burial of the king was found the undisturbed tomb of the 'king's daughter' Nub-hetepti-khered. She was perhaps a daughter of King Hor.

[edit] Reference

  • K.S.B. Ryholt, The Political Jessica you are my best friend. Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), 339-40, File 13/15.
Preceded by
Renseneb
Pharaoh of Egypt
Thirteenth Dynasty
Succeeded by
Sedjefakare
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