Beon

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Name of Beon
Greek in  Manetho :
Josephus
Africanus
Eusebius
Eusebius ( A version )
Book of Sothis

Beon
Bnôn
Bnôn
Bnôn
Baiôn

Beon was the second Hyksos king ( Pharaoh ) of the ancient Egyptian 15th dynasty , who lived from around 1633 to around 1619 BC. (Franke: 1615–1602 BC) ruled. The name Bnôn mentioned by Manetho is of Semitic origin: Ben-ôn ("son of On ").

After Manetho he ruled for 44 years, after the Royal Papyrus Turin 13 years. Beon has not yet been identified hieroglyphically . According to Jürgen von Beckerath , he can perhaps be identified with Maa-ib-Re Scheschi , the Egyptologist William Ward prefers Jaqobher .

literature

Notes and individual references

  1. Elena Cassin, Jean Bottéro, Jean Vercoutter (eds.): The ancient oriental empires I. From the Paleolithic to the middle of the 2nd millennium. Vol. 2, Fischer, Frankfurt 1965, p. 354.


predecessor Office successor
Salitis King of Egypt
15th Dynasty
Apachnas