Salitis

Names of salitis
Throne name	Secha-en-Re Sḫˁ-n-Rˁ Den Re enthroned / who appeared through Re
Proper name	Scharek (Schalik) Š3rk (Š3lk)
Greek in  Manetho : Josephus Africanus Eusebius Eusebius ( A version ) Book of Sothis	Salatis Saītês Saītês Saitês Silitês

Salitis was a Hyksos king ( Pharaoh ) of the ancient Egyptian 15th Dynasty , who from around 1648 BC. Until around 1633 BC (Franke: 1630–1615 BC) ruled.

supporting documents

This king appears at Manetho under his Greek name. Manetho (Africanus) sees him as the founder of the first Hyksos dynasty (15th dynasty), which was "followed by a new immigration of the shepherd kings" (17th Manethon dynasty). The details of the reigns vary. While Manetho (Josephus) names 13 years, the other versions report 19 years.

The partial name used as "Saites" should be based according manet honischer tradition that Salitis in the form "Saites" as a name to the eponymous " Saitengaues had acted" which is opposed to the " Tanitic Gau was." In all Manethonic versions, this Tanitic Gau was titled as "Sethroiten Gau", in which the "shepherds found a city that served as a starting point for the conquest of Egypt". Salitis is said to have been the first "king of these shepherds":

“He also lived in Memphis and had both the upper and lower regions pay tribute, setting up garrisons in their places, especially to secure the east against the Assyrians , who were then the greatest power. They built a city that was appropriate for this purpose and that was on the Bubastis Canal . For mythological reasons, the city was called Auaris . He surrounded them with very strongly fortified walls. Auaris had numerous crew units totaling 240,000 armed men. This man ruled for 13 years. "

- Flavius ​​Josephus

identification

An identification with a hieroglyphically documented king has not yet taken place. It is possible that Salitis is one of the kings with the title Heka Chasut (ruler of the foreign lands) grouped under the 16th dynasty . Sharek (Schalik) is preferred by Egyptologists , there is no clear evidence of this.

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. 420-421.
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 244.
• 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 [accessed October 24, 2014]).
• Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John M. Wickersham: Berossos and Manetho, introduced and translated. Native traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor (Michigan) 2000, ISBN 0-472-08687-1 .
• William Gillian Waddell: Manetho (= The Loeb classical library. Vol. 350). Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) 2004 (Reprint), ISBN 0-674-99385-3 .

Remarks

1. ↑ after Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbook of Egyptian King Names (= Munich Egyptological Studies. 49). von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2591-6 .
2. ↑ In Eusebius and the Armenian version of Eusebius and the "Pseudo-Manetho" chronology "Book of Sothis", Salitis is counted as part of the 17th Manetho dynasty; according to WG Waddell: Manetho. Pp. 95, 97 and 239.

predecessor	Office	successor
Saket	King of Egypt 15th Dynasty (early)	Beon