Nebirirau I.

Name of Nebirirau I.
Horus name	Sewadj-taui S.w3ḏ-t3wj
Sideline	Netjeri-cheperu Nṯrj-ḫprw
Gold name	Nefer-cha Nfr-ḫa
Throne name	Sewadj-en-Re S.w3ḏ-n-Rˁ
Proper name	Nebirirau (Neb iri r au) Nb-jrj-r-3w Nebiriraw (Neb iri r aw) Nb jry r 3w
Royal Papyrus Turin (No.XI./5)	Nebiriaure (Neb iri au Re) Nb jrj 3w Rˁ
Karnak King List	Throne name Sewadj-en-Re S.w3ḏ-n-Rˁ

Nebirirau I. , also Nebereraw (I.) , Nebererau (I.) , Nebiriau (I.) , was an ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the Second Intermediate Period . Its exact classification within this period is controversial.

supporting documents

Nebirirau I is mentioned by his own name in the Royal Papyrus Turin (column 11, line 5; counted by Ryholt). He also appears in the Karnak King List ; here with his throne name . In 1927 the Stèle juridique was found in the Karnak Temple , which dates from the 1st year of the king. It deals with the handover of the office of mayor of El-Kab from incumbent Kebesi to a Sobeknacht and his descendants. It is the only monument on which its full title appears.

There are a number of scarabs and a dagger from Diospolis Parva , on each of which his throne name appears. His throne name was also found on a statue of Harpocrates , which, however, dates from the late Egyptian period. A small stele of the ruler showing him in front of Maat is now in Bonn .

The exact classification of the ruler is controversial. The older research mostly placed him in the 17th dynasty. Kim Ryholt considers him a ruler of the 16th dynasty , which he defines as the Theban dynasty.

literature

• Darrell D. Baker : The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC). Bannerstone Press, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9 , pp. 241-242.
• Jürgen von Beckerath : Investigations into the political history of the second intermediate period in Egypt. Glückstadt 1964, pp. 288–89 (XVII 6)
• KSB Ryhold : The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. c. 1800 - 1550 BC (= Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Vol. 20). Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 87-7289-421-0 , pp. 389-90, file 16/6.
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 167.
• 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. ^ After Hermann Ranke : The Egyptian personal names. Vol. 1-3. Augustin, Glückstadt u. a. 1935, 1952, 1977, online as PDF , p. 183, no. 14.
2. ^ Ryholt: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. P. 389.
3. ↑ Jürgen von Beckerath : Chronology of the Pharaonic Egypt. The timing of Egyptian history from prehistoric times to 332 BC BC (= Munich Egyptological Studies. 46). von Zabern, Mainz 1997, ISBN 3-8053-2310-7 ; and: Handbook of Egyptian King Names (= Munich Egyptological Studies. 49). von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2591-6 .
4. ↑ Ryhold: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. P. 153, Fig. 14.
5. ↑ G. Pieke (Ed.): Death and Power, Ideas of the Beyond in Ancient Egypt. Bonn 2006, Fig. On p. 61.

predecessor	Office	successor
unsure	Pharaoh of Egypt 17th Dynasty	unsure