Chui

Chui was an ancient Egyptian petty king of the 8th Dynasty ( First Intermediate Period ).

Domination

Perhaps a pyramid at Dara can be assigned to him. His name only appears on a fragment of relief found near this pyramid . The assignment of the pyramid to this ruler is not mandatory. Furthermore, nothing is known about him.

literature

General

Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC). Bannerstone Press, Oakville 2008, ISBN 978-0-9774094-4-0 , p. 192.
Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 104.

About the name

Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbook of the Egyptian king names. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00832-2 , pp. 60, 189.

To the pyramid

Ahmed Fakhry: The Pyramids. 2nd Edition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1969, ISBN 0-226-23473-8 , pp. 202-204.
Rainer Stadelmann : The Egyptian pyramids. From brick construction to the wonder of the world (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 30). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1142-7 , pp. 229-230, fig. 73.
Miroslav Verner : The pyramids (= rororo non-fiction book. Volume 60890). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60890-1 , pp. 416-417.

Questions of detail

Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronology of the pharaonic Egypt. von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-2310-7 , p. 151.
Hratch Papazian : The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty. In: Peter Der Manuelian , Thomas Schneider (Eds.): Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Perspectives on the Pyramid Age (= Harvard Egyptological Studies. Volume 1). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-30188-7 , pp. 393-428.

Individual evidence

^ A. Kamal: Fouilles à Dara et à Qoceir el-Amarna. In: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l´Egypte, Le Caire. Vol. 12, 1912, pp. 128-142; the fragment: p. 132, No. 2, Figure 9.

predecessor	Office	successor
unsure	Pharaoh of Egypt 8th Dynasty	unsure

personal data
SURNAME	Chui
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Egyptian king of the 8th dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.

[1] A. Kamal: Fouilles à Dara et à Qoceir el-Amarna. In: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l´Egypte, Le Caire. Vol. 12, 1912, pp. 128-142; the fragment: p. 132, No. 2, Figure 9.