Rahotep

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Rahotep (or more properly Rahotep Sekhenrewahkhaw) was an Egyptian king of the Seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, and ruled during the Second Intermediate Period, when Egypt was ruled by multiple kings. Kim Ryholt, in his book on the Political Situation in Egypt, suggests that Rahotep was the first king of the 17th Dynasty. Rahotep is well known for restoring the damaged walls of the Temple of Abydos to increase the city's defenses against possible attacks presumably from the Hyksos. (Ryholt: p.171)

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  • Kim Ryholt, "The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications," vol.20. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997) ISBN 87-7289-421-0
Preceded by
Unknown		 Pharaoh of Egypt
Seventeenth Dynasty		 Succeeded by
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