Nehesy

Name of Nehesy
Throne name	Aa-seh-Re ˁ3-sḥ-Rˁ With great advice, a Re
Proper name	Nehesy Nḥsj The Nubian
Royal Papyrus Turin (No. 8./1.)

Nehesy , also Nehesi , was an ancient Egyptian king ( pharaoh ) of the 14th Dynasty ( Second Intermediate Period ), who lived in the 17th century BC. Ruled.

origin

According to his proper name, Nehesy was of Nubian descent. According to Darell D. Baker, he was a son of King Sheschi and Queen Tati . Four scarabs found , including one from Semna in Nubia, indicate a temporary co-regency with his father. He was not a direct heir to the throne, but could only take his position after the death of his older brother, Prince Ipqu.

Manfred Bietak suspects that Nehesy's father was an Egyptian military man or administrator who chose Auaris as the residence of the northeast province he controlled and made himself independent from Egypt. The newly formed empire, over which Nehesy also ruled, mainly comprised the easternmost edge of the delta . Almost all the monuments of Nehesy come from there.

supporting documents

Next to Merdjefare, Nehesy is the only ruler named in the Turin Royal Papyrus and who is currently documented by monuments . His name can also be found on scarabs, like many kings of the Second Intermediate Period. He is thus the best attested ruler of the 14th dynasty . There is a pair of steles from Tell Habwe . In front of the sanctuary of Seth in Raahu he erected an obelisk , where he still appears as the eldest son of the king . With this title he is known from numerous seals .

Seth, Lord of Auaris , appears for the first time on a usurped seated statue that was later used by Merenptah . The worship of the god Seth, which began under Nehesy, is usually regarded as a reference point for the 400-year stele of Ramses II , which is supposed to deal with the anniversary of the Seth cult under King Haremhab .

More fragments with his name have been found in recent excavations in Auaris.

In the Royal Papyrus of Turin, Nehesy is placed at the beginning of the 14th dynasty in the eastern Nile Delta. It is quite possible that the authors of the list of kings perceived him as the founder of the city of Auaris because he was the first ruler to choose it as the capital.

See also

• List of kings of the 14th 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. 277-278.
• Jürgen von Beckerath : Investigations into the political history of the second interim period in Egypt (= Egyptological research. 23). Augustin, Glückstadt / New York 1964, pp. 262-263 (XIV 1.).
• KSB Ryhold : The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 BC (= The Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Vol. 20). The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 87-7289-421-0 , pp. 376-78 (File 14/6).
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 76.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On a fragment from Tanis , however, his mother is named Peret. Thomas Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs. P. 176.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs. P. 277.
3. ↑ There are four fragments that were found in Tanis .
4. ^ Cairo CG 538.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sheschi	Pharaoh of Egypt 14th Dynasty	Chatitre