Sobekhotep I

colspan="2" valign="top" style="background:;" | Sobekhotep I in hieroglyphs
Horus Name Sema-taui
Šmꜣ-tꜣwj

Nebti Name Djed-Khau
Ḏd-ḫꜥw

Golden Horus Name Kau-netjeru
Kꜣw-nṯr.w

Prenomen: Kha-ankh-Re
ḫꜥ-Ꜥnḫ-Rꜥ
Nomen Sobekhotep
Sbk ḥtp

Sobekhotep I was an Egyptian king (throne name: Khaankhre) of the 13th Dynasty.

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Evidence

He appears in the Turin King List as Sobekhotep and is otherwise mainly known from reliefs coming from a chapel set up in Abydos and from a fragment of a column. His reign was most likely only very short. [1]

The name of Khaankhre Sobekhotep (I) appears in an inscription from the Amherst collection. The inscription is part of a granite statue pedestal. The piece was acquired in 1982 by the British museum (BM 69497). [1][2]

Identity

Ryholt mentions that Sobekhotep I may be identical with Sobekhotep II. Sobekhotep II is only mentioned as Sobekhotep in the Turin King List. [1] Others, like Dodson, consider Khaahnkhre Sobekhotep II and Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep I to be two different rulers from the 13th dynasty [3], while Bierbrier lists Khaahnkhre Sobekhotep I and Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep II. [4]

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ C. N. Reeves, Miscellanea Epigraphica, Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Bd. 13, (1986), pp. 165-170
  3. ^ Aidan Dodson, Monarchs of the Nile, American Univ in Cairo Press, 2000, p 207
  4. ^ Bierbrier, M.L., Historical dictionary of ancient Egypt, Scarecrow Press, 2008 ISBN 9780810857940, Google Books
Preceded by
Nedejemibre		 Pharaoh of Egypt
Thirteenth Dynasty		 Succeeded by
Renseneb