Sobekemsaf II.

Name of Sobekemsaf II.
Throne name	Sechem-Re-sched-taui Sḫm-Rˁ-šd-t3.w (j) Mighty one, a Re who saves the two countries
Proper name	Sobekemsaf / Sebekemsaf Sbk m s3 = f Sobek is his protection
Royal Papyrus Turin (No.11.9)	Sechem-Re-sched-Waset Sḫm Rˁ-šd-W3st Mighty, a Re who saves Thebes (West)
Karnak Kings List (No.54)	Sechem-Re-sched-taui Sḫm-Rˁ-šd-t3.w (j) Mighty one, a Re who saves the two countries

Sobekemsaf II. Was an ancient Egyptian king ( pharaoh ) of the 17th Dynasty ( Second Intermediate Period ) and ruled after Franke around 1570 BC. Chr.

family

Sobekemsaf II was married to Queen Nubchaes. There is another queen of this name in the 13th Dynasty . In older research, this resulted in Sobekemsaf II being classified in the 13th dynasty. However, the name Nubchaes is found quite often in this period, so that it is not difficult to assume that there are two queens of the same name.

His grave

His pyramid was also in Dra Abu el-Naga / Thebes . It was already in the 16th year of Ramses IX. robbed and the mummies burned, as old papyri show as trial protocols ( Papyrus Abbott , 20th Dynasty ).

Further evidence of his name is the stele of a scribe Sobekhotep, a limestone shrine from Thebes, as well as two statues and a stele, which could also come from the time of Sobekemsaf I and cannot be clearly assigned to Sobekemsaf II, as they only have the name Sobekemsaf and not mention the throne name.

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. 438-440, → Sobekemsaf I.
• Jürgen von Beckerath : Investigations into the political history of the second intermediate period in Egypt. Glückstadt 1964, pp. 173-175, 290-292 (XVII 10).
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 254.
• 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. ↑ Inventory number: British Museum 1163.
2. ↑ Inventory number: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 25329.

predecessor	Office	successor
Bebanch	Pharaoh of Egypt 17th Dynasty	Anjotef V.