Nubwoserre Ya'ammu (also rendered as Ya'amu,
[ Jamu and Jaam][) was a ruler during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. This Asiatic-blooded ruler is traditionally placed in the Sixteenth Dynasty, an hypothesis still in use nowadays by scholars such as ]Jürgen von Beckerath
Jürgen von Beckerath (19 February 1920, Hanover – 26 June 2016, Schlehdorf) was a German Egyptologist. He was a prolific writer who published countless articles in journals such as '' Orientalia'', ''Göttinger Miszellen'' (GM), '' Journal of ...
;[Nubwoserre Ya'ammu on Eglyphica.de]
/ref> although recently Kim Ryholt
Kim Steven Bardrum Ryholt (born 19 June 1970) is a professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen and a specialist on Egyptian history and literature. He is director of the research centeCanon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Litera ...
proposed him as the second ruler of the 14th Dynasty.
Identification
This ruler seems to have made little use of the cartouche
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the f ...
– which was a pharaonic
Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian: '' pr ꜥꜣ''; cop, , Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until the ...
prerogative – since it was used only for the throne name, Nubwoserre, though not always. His personal name never appears inside a cartouche, and is simply reported as " the son of Ra, Ya'ammu".
Similar to his suggested predecessor Yakbim Sekhaenre
Sekhaenre Yakbim or Yakbmu was a ruler during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. Although his dynastic and temporal collocation is disputed, Danish Egyptologist Kim Ryholt believes that he likely was the founder of the Levantine-blooded Fourt ...
, there is no direct evidence that Ya'ammu's throne name was Nubwoserre: the association is based on stylistic features of the seal
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** Earless seal, or "true seal"
** Fur seal
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s and was proposed by William Ayres Ward and later elaborated by Ryholt; Daphna Ben-Tor Daphna is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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disputed this identification, pointing out that the seals of the many rulers living during this period are too similar to make such correlations on the basis of mere design features.Turin King List The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, now in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin. The papyrus is the most extensive list a ...
can not help with this issue since the ruler does not appear on it, likely due to a lacuna
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* Lacuna (manuscripts), a gap in a manuscript, inscription, text, painting, or musical work
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Assuming that Ward and Ryholt were right, Nubwoserre Ya'ammu is attested by 26 rather crude scarab seals (more precisely, 19 naming Nubwoserre and 7 naming Ya'ammu);[King Ya'ammu on Digitalegypt]
/ref>[ However, about the events of his reign absolutely nothing is known.
Israeli Egyptologist Raphael Giveon identifies Ya'ammu with his proposed predecessor Yakbim.][
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18th-century BC Pharaohs
Pharaohs of the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Pharaohs of the Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt