Chendjer

Name of Chendjer
Granite statue of Chendjer; Egyptian Museum , Cairo , JE 53368
Horus name	Djed-cheperu Ḏd-ḫprw
Throne name	User-ka-Re Wsr-k3-Rˁ The Ka des Re is strong
Proper name	Chendjer Ḫnḏr Eber
Royal Papyrus Turin (No. VI 20)	User-… -Ra-chendjer Wsr-… -Rˁ-ḫnḏr Strong is .... the Re .... Boar

Chendjer , also Chanzir , was an ancient Egyptian king ( pharaoh ) of the 13th Dynasty ( Second Intermediate Period ), who lived from about 1718 to 1712 BC. Ruled.

origin

The name of the ruler gives rise to much speculation . The name Chendjer is rarely attested and was equated with the Semitic word (ḫ [n] zr) for "boar", which was believed to be evidence of an Asian usurper on the Egyptian throne. Chendjer or Chedjer is also the Egyptian word for "boar", so that the name does not necessarily indicate an Asian origin of the ruler. In any case, on his few monuments , Chendjer appears as a “normal” Egyptian ruler. The name Chendjer is also used a few times in Egypt.

family

Chendjer's wife was apparently a " royal wife " named Seneb. However, the name is not entirely preserved on the canopic fragment that was found near the king's pyramid. A prince named Chendjer appears on a stele that is now in Liverpool . Maybe he was the ruler's son.

Construction activity

The Chendjer pyramid

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Reconstruction of the pyramid complex

The pyramid of Chendjer is the only one of the 13th Dynasty that was completed, which is concluded from the fact that its pyramidion was found made of black granite . Gustave Jéquier discovered them in Saqqara South. With a side length of 52.5 m, it was probably almost 38 m high.

Further construction activity

A private stele from Abydos , dated under King Chendjer, reports on renovation work on the temple there.

literature

• Jürgen von Beckerath : Investigations into the political history of the second interim period in Egypt (= Egyptological research. Volume 23). Augustin, Glückstadt / New York 1964, pp. 49-51, 238-39 (XIII 17).
• KSB Ryholt : The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (= Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Volume 20). Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 87-7289-421-0 , pp. 220-221, 342 (File 13/22).
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Artemis & Winkler, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7608-1102-7 , pp. 99-100.
• Thomas Schneider: The Relative Chronology of the Middle Kingdom and the Hyksos Period (Dyns. 12-17). 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. 168-196 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dating from Thomas Schneider: Lexikon der Pharaonen. Munich 1997.
2. ↑ see the discussion in: K. Ryholt: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. Copenhagen 1997, pp. 220-221.
3. ↑ on the stele Marschial Museum Aberdeen , inventory number: ABUA 21642 and the stele Liverpool, inventory number: M13635
4. ↑ Gustave Jéquier: Deux pyramides du Moyen Empire (= Fouilles à Saqqarah. Volume 68). Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 1933, pp. 3–35.
5. ↑ Inventory number of the Louvre : C12

predecessor	Office	successor
Sobekhotep II	Pharaoh of Egypt 13th Dynasty	Emramescha