Neferhotep III.

Name of Neferhotep Iychernofret
Horus name	Wadj-chau W3ḏ-ḫˁ.w Fresh from apparitions
Sideline	Aa-pethi ˁ3-pḥtj great in strength (strength)
Gold name	Men -... Mn ... continuously on ...
Throne name	Sechem-Re-seanch-taui Sḫm-Rˁ-sˁnḫ-t3.w (j) Mighty is Re who animates the two countries
Proper name	Neferhotep (Nefer hotep) Nfr ḥtp Perfect and satisfied Iychernofret (Iy cher nofret) Jy ḫr nfrt Who comes with good

Nefer-hotep III. was an Ancient Egyptian King ( Pharaoh ) of the Second Intermediate Period .

classification

The classification of this ruler is uncertain. Jürgen von Beckerath sees him as the ruler of the late 13th dynasty . Kim Ryholt assigns him to the 16th dynasty , which he sees as the Theban dynasty , and assigns him to a king of the Turin royal papyrus , of whom Sechem-Re-s ... can be read on the papyrus (11/3) .

supporting documents

On a stele from the Karnak Temple , the ruler boasts that he is the “head of victorious Thebes ” and that he “raised Thebes again because it was flooded by foreigners”. These seem to be direct allusions to military events in which even Thebes was involved. So far these were mostly associated with the arrival of the Hyksos , but it seems more likely that they have to do with invading Nubians (see Sobeknacht II. ).

The ruler is otherwise only known from a stele made of Gebelein and a block from Elkab , the latter block shows traces of a revision.

literature

• Jürgen von Beckerath : Investigations into the political history of the second interim period in Egypt (= Egyptological research. Volume 23). Augustin, Glückstadt 1964, pp. 67-68, 259 (XIII J.).
• Norbert Dautzenberg: Neferhotep III. and Sebekhotep VIII. Dating considerations based on the royal statutes in the 13th dynasty. In: Göttinger Miscellen . Volume 140, 1994, pp. 19-26.
• K .SB Ryholt : The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (= Carsten Niebuhr Institute [CNI] publications. Volume 20). Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1997, p. 388 (File 16/4).
• Thomas Schneider : The Relative Chronology of the Middle Kingdom and the Hyksos Period (Dyns. 12-17). In: Erik Hornung , Rolf Krauss , D avid 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 ).
• Pascal Vernus: La stele du roi Sekhemsankhtaouyre Neferhotep Iykhernofrte et la domination Hyksos (stele Cairo JE 59635). In: Annales du service des antiquités de l'égypte. Volume 68, 1982, pp. 129-135.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inventory number of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo , Journal d'Entrée number (JdE) 59635.

predecessor	Office	successor
unsure	Pharaoh of Egypt 13th Dynasty	unsure