Iufni (also Jewefni) was an
ancient Egyptian
pharaoh of the
13th Dynasty
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during the
Second Intermediate Period.
[Darrell D. Baker: ''The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC'', Stacey International, , 2008, p. 101] According to the egyptologists
Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker he was the 7th king of the dynasty,
[ Kim Ryholt: ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period'', Copenhagen 1927, , S. 338] while
Jürgen von Beckerath and
Detlef Franke see him as the 6th ruler.
[ Jürgen von Beckerath: ''Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen'', Münchner ägyptologische Studien, Heft 49, Mainz : P. von Zabern, 1999, ]
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see pp. 90-91 Iufni reigned from
Memphis for a very short time c. 1788 BC or 1741 BC.
[ Detlef Franke: ''Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches. Teil II: Die sogenannte Zweite Zwischenzeit Altägyptens, in Orientalia 57 (1988)'']
Attestation
Iufni is only known from the
Turin canon, a king list compiled around 500 years after Iufni's reign, during the early
Ramesside period.
[ Jürgen von Beckerath: ''Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten'', Glückstadt 1964, pp. 40, 230 (XIII 5)] According to Ryholt's latest reconstruction of the Turin canon, his name is given on column 7 row 9 of the document (this corresponds to column 6 row 9 in
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Personal life
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's and von Beckerath's reading of the canon).
Family
Ryholt notes that Iufni's two predecessors
Ameny Qemau and
Hotepibre Qemau Siharnedjheritef as well as his successor
Seankhibre Ameny Antef Amenemhet VI all bear
filiative nomina In ancient Egyptian grammar, a ''filiative nomen'' (plural ''filiative nomina'') is a name, typically of a pharaoh, that incorporates the name(s) of the person's father and possibly grandfather.
References
See also
* Nomen (Ancient Egypt)
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—that is, names that connect them to their father. Since such nomina were used by pharaohs only when their fathers were also pharaohs and since Iufni reigned in their midst, Ryholt argues that Iufni must have been part of the family including
Sekhemkare Amenmhat V, Ameny Qemau, Siharnedjheritef and Amenemhat VI.
Given the brevity of Iufni's reign, Ryholt proposes that he may have been a brother of Siharnedjheritef or simply a grandson of Amenemhat V.
References
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18th-century BC Pharaohs
Pharaohs of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt