Antef VI

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Antef VI (or Intef Sekhemrewepmaat) was an Egyptian king of the Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, who lived during the Second Intermediate Period, when Egypt was ruled by multiple kings.

He ruled from Thebes, and was probably buried in a tomb in the necropolis. His royal coffin, Louvre E 3019, was discovered in the 19th Century AD and found to preserve an inscription which reveals that this king's brother Nebkheperre Antef VII buried – and thus succeeded – him. ^[1] Both Antef VI and Antef VII were sons of a king called Sobekemsaf, probably Sobekemsaf I based on an inscription from a door jamb from a 17th Dynasty temple at Gebel Antef.^[2] While his own tomb has not been located, it was likely located in the area of Dra' Abu el-Naga' where the pyramid tomb of his brother Antef VII was found in 2001.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Kim Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, CNI Publications, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997, p.270
2. ^ Ryholt, op. cit., p.270

Preceded by Sobekemsaf I

Pharaoh of Egypt Seventeenth Dynasty

Succeeded by Antef VII