Horwennefer ( egy, ḥr-wnn-nfr "
Horus
Horus or Heru, Hor, Har in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as god of kingship and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the P ...
-
Onnophris"; grc, Άροννώφρις ) was an Upper
Egyptian
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt.
Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:
Nations and ethnic groups
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** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...
who led
Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt ( ar, صعيد مصر ', shortened to , , locally: ; ) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south.
In ancient ...
in secession from the rule of
Ptolemy IV Philopator
egy, Iwaennetjerwymenkhwy Setepptah Userkare Sekhemankhamun Clayton (2006) p. 208.
, predecessor = Ptolemy III
, successor = Ptolemy V
, horus = ''ḥnw-ḳni sḫꜤi.n-sw-it.f'Khunuqeni sekhaensuitef'' The strong youth whose f ...
in 205 BC. No monuments are attested to this king but along with his successor
Ankhwennefer (also known as ''Chaonnophris'' or ''Ankhmakis''
[Günther Hölbl, ''History of the Ptolemaic Empire'', Routledge, 2000, pp. 155ff.]) he held a large part of Egypt until 186 BC. A
graffito dating to about 201 BC on a wall of the mortuary Temple of
Seti I
Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c.1294 or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. He was the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II.
The ...
at
Abydos, in which his name is written (), is an attestation to the extent of his influence.
[ He appears to have died before 197 BC.
The Abydene graffito, one of the few documents remaining from his reign, is written in ]Egyptian
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Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:
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* Egyptians, a national group in North Africa
** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...
using Greek letters
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, the oldest testimony of a development which would end in the Coptic script replacing the native Egyptian demotic
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* Demotic Greek, the modern vernacular form of the Greek language
* Demotic (Egyptian), an ancient Egyptian script and version of the language
* Chữ Nôm, the demotic script for writing Vietnamese
See also
*
* Demos (disa ...
.
References
Bibliography
* ''The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian'' by Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski
Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski (Józef Edmund Mélèze-Modrzejewski, 8 March 1930 in Lublin – 29 January 2017) was a Polish-French historian and professor of ancient history at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
Career
Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejew ...
, Princeton University Press 1997, p. 150
In Popular Culture
A war elephant named Herwennefer can be found in the 2017 action-adventure video game, Assassin's Creed: Origins
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