Hotepibre Qemau Siharnedjheritef (also Sehetepibre I or Sehetepibre II depending on the scholar) was an
Egyptian pharaoh of the
13th Dynasty
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during the
Second Intermediate Period.
Family
Qemau Siharnedjheritef complete nomen means "Qemau's son, Horus he who seizes his power" and from this it is likely that he was the son of his predecessor
Ameny Qemau and the grandson of king
Amenemhat V :''See Amenemhat, for other individuals with this name.''
Sekhemkare Amenemhat V was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period. According to Egyptologists Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker, he was the 4th king of t ...
. Ryholt further proposes that he was succeeded by a king named
Iufni
Iufni (also Jewefni) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period.Darrell D. Baker: ''The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC'', Stacey Internat ...
, who may have been his brother or uncle. After the short reign of Iufni, the throne went to another grandson of Amenemhat V named
Ameny Antef Amenemhat VI.
Attestations
A statue dedicated to
Ptah and bearing the name of Hotepibre was found in
Khatana
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, but its location of origin is unknown. A Temple-block from
el-Atawla with his name is now in the
Cairo Museum (Temp 25.4.22.3). This pharaoh is also known by a
ceremonial mace
A ceremonial mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal or wood, carried before a sovereign or other high officials in civic ceremonies by a mace-bearer, intended to represent the official's authority. The mace, as used today, derives from the or ...
found inside the so-called "Tomb of the Lord of the Goats" in
Ebla, in modern northern
Syria
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; the mace was a gift from Hotepibre to the Eblaite king
Immeya
Immeya was a king of Ebla, in modern Syria, reigning around 1750–1725 BCE.Matthiae (2010), pp. 217-18
Reign
Immeya was most likely buried in the so-called "Tomb of the Lord of the Goats", in the royal necropolis of the western palace at ...
who was his contemporary. Hotepibre is sometimes also credited as the founder of a palace recently rediscovered at
Tell El-Dab'a (the ancient
Avaris
Avaris (; Egyptian: ḥw.t wꜥr.t, sometimes ''hut-waret''; grc, Αὔαρις, Auaris; el, Άβαρις, Ávaris; ar, حوّارة, Hawwara) was the Hyksos capital of Egypt located at the modern site of Tell el-Dab'a in the northeastern r ...
).
Speculations
According to egyptologists
Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker, he was the sixth king of the dynasty, reigning for one to five years, possibly three years, from 1791 BC until 1788 BC.
[Darrell D. Baker: ''The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC'', Stacey International, , 2008, p. 120-121][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] Alternatively,
Jürgen von Beckerath and
Detlef Franke see him as the ninth king of the dynasty.
[Detlef Franke: ''Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches. Teil II: Die sogenannte Zweite Zwischenzeit Altägyptens'', in Orientalia 57 (1988)]
References
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18th-century BC Pharaohs
Pharaohs of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Ebla