Sehetepkare Intef was the a minor king of the early 13th Dynasty during the late Middle Kingdom. Sehetepkare Intef reigned from Memphis for a short period, certainly less than ten years, between 1759 BC and 1749 BC or c. 1710 BC.

Attestations

Seated statue, Cairo JE 67834

In the

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, Sehetepkare Intef is attested by the lower half of a seated statue from the temple complex of goddess

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at Medinet Madi.

Cylinder seal, Petrie UC 11532 (weak)

Of Unknown Provenance, a cylinder seal with the prenomen Hotepkare, has been assigned to Sehotepkare but not by Ryholt.

Non-contemporary attestation

Turin King List

The Turin canon 7:22 (Gardiner 6:22) mentions "''The Dual King ehotepa aIntef, ... 3 days''".https://pharaoh.se/ancient-egypt/kinglist/turin/column-7/ In this list he is between 7:21 Imyremeshaw and 7:23 Seth Meribre.

Chronological position and reign length

The exact chronological position of Sehetepkare Intef in the 13th Dynasty is not known for certain owing to uncertainties affecting earlier kings of the dynasty. Darrell Baker places him as the twenty-third king of the dynasty,

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as the twenty-fourth and

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as the nineteenth. Furthermore, Ryholt believes Sehetepkare Intef was the fifth ruler bearing that name, making him Intef V, while Aidan Dodson, von Beckerath and Darrell Baker posit that he was Intef IV.Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004.Darrell D. Baker: ''The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC'', Stacey International, , 2008 The length of his reign is lost in a lacuna of the papyrus and cannot be recovered, except for the end of the inscription which reads ''"... nd3 days"''. Kim Ryholt gives ten years for the combined reigns of Imyremeshaw, Sehetepkare Intef and Seth Meribre. Another piece of evidence concerning the reign of Intef is found in the 13th Dynasty Papyrus Boulaq 18 which reports, among other things, the composition of a royal family comprising ten king's sisters, an unspecified number of king's brothers, three daughters of the king, a son named Redienef and a queen named Aya. Even though the king's name is lost in a lacuna, Ryholt's analysis of the papyrus only leaves Imyremeshaw and Sehetepkare Intef as possibilities. This is significant because the papyrus reports a year 3 and a year 5 dates for this king. Additionally, a date "regnal year 5, 3rd month of Shemu, 18th day" is known from the unfinished pyramid complex neighboring that of Khendjer, which may thus have been built by the same ruler, a close successor of Khendjer, perhaps Intef. The exact circumstances of the end of Intef's reign are unknown but the fact that his successor Seth Meribre did not use '' filiative nomina'' points to a non-royal birth. Consequently, Ryholt proposes that Seth Meribre usurped the throne.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Intef 04 18th-century BC pharaohs Pharaohs of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt