Nedjemibre was an ephemeral

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pharaoh of the

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during the Second Intermediate Period reigning c. 1780 BCK.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
excerpts available online here.
/ref> or 1736 BC.Thomas Schneider: ''Lexikon der Pharaonen'', Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, According to Egyptologists Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker he was the twelfth pharaoh of the dynasty,Darrell D. Baker: ''The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC'', Stacey International, , 2008, p. 248-249 while Detlef Franke and

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see him as the eleventh ruler. Nedjemibre is known solely from the

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, a king list compiled in the early Ramesside period. The canon gives his name on the 7th column, line 14 (Gardiner entry 6.14

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: ''The Royal Canon of Turin'', Oxford 1959, Vol. III, 6.14, Warminster 1987, .) and credits him with a very short reign of "''7 months and ost days'". Nedjemibre's successor,

Khaankhre Sobekhotep Khaankhre Sobekhotep (now believed to be Sobekhotep II or Sobekhotep IV; known as Sobekhotep I in older studies) was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt, Second Intermediate Period. Evidenc ...

, being well attested and never mentioning his parentage led Ryholt to propose that Khaankhre Sobekhotep was not of royal birth and usurped the throne at the expense of Nedjemibre.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nedjemibre 18th-century BC Pharaohs Pharaohs of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt