Beacon renef

This article deals with the Egyptian pharaoh Bakenrenef, for the vizier of the same name see Bakenrenef (vizier) .

Beacon renef
Throne name	Wah-ka-Re W3h-k3-Rˁ With constant Ka , a Re
Proper name	Bakenrenef (Ba ken renef) B3 kn rn = f The servant of his name
Greek for Manetho	Bókchôris

Bakenrenef (Greek Bokchoris ) was the successor of Tefnachte as the 2nd and last ancient Egyptian pharaoh (king) of the 24th dynasty . Manetho even describes him as the founder and sole ruler of the 24th Dynasty. His reign is from about 720 to 716 BC. To apply. Bakenrenef was probably a son of Tefnachte, no further information about his origin is known. In addition to his birth name , only his throne name has survived, which is Wah-ka-Re ( with constant Ka , a Re ).

supporting documents

Bakenranef mainly by Serapeum - steles testified that from the funeral of the deceased towards the end of his reign Apis report -Stieres. The vault of the serapeum also has an inscription with the mention of the 2nd year of Shabaka , which proves the transition to the 25th dynasty in Lower Egypt as well . According to information from Manetho, which is doubtful, Bakenrenef is said to have been burned alive by Shabaka.

Bakenrenef apparently ruled Memphis . But he does nothing against the rulers of Tanis -Bubastis or Leontopolis and the princes of the Libyans, who ruled at the same time . To what extent his sovereignty was recognized by the other rulers and whether he tried to expand his territory further into Middle Egypt is unknown. A curious vase found in Tarquinia in Etruria in 1895 (a parallel piece comes from Sicily) shows Bakenrenef (Bokchoris) over the ideological motif of the Cushitic prisoners.

meaning

According to tradition, Bakenrenef is regarded as the legislator or collector of the previous laws (for example in Diodorus alongside Menes , Sasychis , Sesoosis , Amasis and Dareios I ). There are no Egyptian references for enacting their own laws. The Greek poet Pankrates dedicates a multi-volume work to Bokchoreïs to Bakenrenef . Only a single distich of him has survived . It is interesting to assume that the ancient pictorial tradition of the wise judge (such as a silver cup from Meroë) could represent Bakenrenef (Bokchoris) (K. Brodersen; or Augustus ?).

literature

• Kurt Sethe : Bokchoris . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 666 f.
• Jürgen von Beckerath : Chronology of Pharaonic Egypt - The determination of the time of Egyptian history from prehistoric times to 332 BC. BC (= Munich Egyptological Studies. Volume 46). von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-2310-7 , pp. 89-94.
• Karl Jansen-Winkeln : The Chronology of the Third Intermediate Period: Dyns 22-24. In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-11385-5 , pp. 234-264 ( online ).
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs . Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 93-94 .

Web links

• Karl Jansen-Winkeln:  Bokchoris. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (eds.): The scientific biblical lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff., Accessed on May 26, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Düsseldorf 2002, p. 93.
2. ↑ picture of the vase

predecessor	Office	successor
Tefnights	Pharaoh of Egypt 720 to 716 BC Chr.	Shabaka