Rahotep (Pharaoh)

Name of Rahotep
Stele depicting Rahotep making a sacrifice to Osiris ; British Museum , London
Horus name	Wah- ankh ˁnḫ-w3ḥ Constantly on life
Sideline	User-renput Wsr-rnpwt Powerful in (prime) years
Gold name	Wadj W3ḏ The regained strength
Proper name	Rahotep Rˁ ḥtp Re is satisfied
Karnak King List	Throne name : Sechem-Re-wah-chau Sḫm-Rˁ-w3ḥ-ḫˁw A mighty Re / (with) the power of Re, constant in appearances

Rahotep was an ancient Egyptian king ( pharaoh ) of the 17th Dynasty ( Second Intermediate Period ) and, according to Franke, ruled around 1622 to 1619 BC. Chr.

supporting documents

The classification of this king in the Egyptian chronology is uncertain. Traditionally, Rahotep is considered the 2nd king of the 17th dynasty. It is possible that his reign was in the 13th dynasty and one of the last kings of the 13th dynasty (Vandersleyen et al.). Both views may need to be corrected, as some recent finds show. Kim Ryholt describes him as the first ruler of his 17th dynasty. Rahotep's throne name is mentioned on the royal list of Karnak and can be added in the royal papyrus Turin . According to this, he ruled for three years.

Rahotep is only known from three monuments so far. A stele from Koptos reported to renovations at the local Min Temple by Rahotep, and produced on an arch with two arrows is a son of the king mentioned by name Ameni, who also simultaneously son of Sobekemsaf I. is. The stele of a private citizen from Abydos dated under Rahotep and shows the ruler.

The king appears in a spiritual story from the Ramesside period . A treasurer of the ruler asks the main character of the story, Chonsemhab, to renovate his grave. History may prove that Rahotep had his grave in Thebes.

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. 341-343.
• Jürgen von Beckerath : Investigations into the political history of the second intermediate period in Egypt. Augustin, Glückstadt 1964, pp. 178–79, 283–284 (XVII 2), (= Ägyptologische Forschungen. 23, ISSN  0933-338X ), (also: University of Munich, habilitation thesis, 1962).
• Kim Ryholt : The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c. 1800 - 1550 BC (= CNI publications. Vol. 20). Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies - University of Copenhagen et al., Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 87-7289-421-0 , pp. 392-393 (File 17/1).
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 241.
• 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 ).

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inventory number, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology in London : 14327
2. ↑ Inventory number, Moscow I.1a 1804
3. ↑ Inventory number, British Museum in London: BM 833 / Inventory number of the Musée du vieux château in Laval (Mayenne) : 4560
4. ^ Alan H. Gardiner: Late Egyptian Stories (= Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca. Vol. 1). Édition de la Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, Brussels 1973, pp. 89–94.

predecessor	Office	successor
unknown	Pharaoh of Egypt 17th Dynasty (beginning)	Sobekemsaf I.