Userkare

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Userkare
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Attribution of Userkares on the list of kings of Abydos
Proper name
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Userkare
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Userkare (also Weserkare ) was the second king ( pharaoh ) of the ancient Egyptian 6th dynasty in the Old Kingdom . He ruled briefly around 2300 BC. Chr.

Userkare can only be found in the list of kings in the Seti I temple of Abydos and on the royal papyrus Turin . Manetho does not mention him. He is said to have ruled only for a short time (two years?). He may have usurped the throne , perhaps he also served as interim king before the underage Pepi I took office. There is an indication that Queen Chentkaus II (Chentitkaues) was his mother.

He is known from three cylinder seals and one tool. A work force belonging to the ruler is named on the tool, which may indicate that he was embarking on a major construction project.

Redrawing of the annal stone of Saqqara-South, which was converted into the sarcophagus lid of Anchenespepi IV, with heavily damaged information on the reigns of the kings of the 6th Dynasty

Gustave Jéquier discovered another reference to the granite sarcophagus of Anchenespepi IV , which was found in a storage room of the sacrificial chapel of the pyramid of Queen Iput II . The basalt lid showed the remains of an inscription that has only recently been reconstructed. The tablet resembles the Palermostein with royal annals of the 6th Dynasty. According to this, Userkare actually seems to have ruled before Pepi I as the successor of Teti II, who according to Manetho was murdered . After Miroslav Verner he became a victim of the " damnatio memoriae " under Pepi I.

literature

General

  • Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC). Bannerstone Press, Oakville 2008, ISBN 978-0977409440 , pp. 486-487.
  • Zahi Hawass : The Treasures of the Pyramids . Weltbildverlag, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-8289-0809-8 , pp. 17, 265, 268.
  • Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , pp. 305-306.
  • Christoffer Theis: Userkare. An ephemeral ruler of the Old Kingdom. In: Sokar. Volume 30, 2015, pp. 56-67.
  • Miroslav Verner : The pyramids (= rororo non-fiction book. Volume 60890). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60890-1 , pp. 377, 390, 393, 408.

About the name

  • Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbook of the Egyptian king names. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00832-2 , p. 56 with note 3, p. 184.
  • Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) Volume 1, Berlin / Wiesbaden / Mainz, 1930, p. 38 Figure 35.

Questions of detail

  • Michel Baud: The Relative Chronology of Dynasties 6 and 8. 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. 144-158 ( online ).
  • Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronology of the pharaonic Egypt. von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-2310-7 , pp. 27, 39, 148-150, 152, 188.
  • Oleg Berlev: Drevnej Vostok (= The Old Orient (AO) Bd. II). 1980, pp. 56-63.
  • Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, ISBN 977-424-878-3 , pp. 70-78.
  • Hans Goedicke : Userkare . In Lexicon of Egyptology VI . Harrasowitz, Wiesbaden 1986, column 901, ISBN 3-447-02663-4 .
  • Naguib Kanawati: New evidence on the reign of Userkare? (= Göttingen Miscellen . Vol. 83). Göttingen 1984, pp. 31-38.
  • Peter Kaplony : Comments on some stone vessels with archaic royal names . In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) Vol. 20, 1965, pp. 36, 38f.
  • Peter Kaplony: Inscribed small finds in the Georges Michailidis collection. Nederlands Histor.-Archaeolog. Inst. In het Nabije Oosten, Istanbul 1973, p. 24, pl. 13, no. 58 (81973).
  • Peter Kaplony: The cylinder seals of the Old Kingdom. Volume II; Text A: Catalog of cylinder seals. Text B: panels. (= Monumenta Aegyptiaca. (MonAeg) Vol. 3 A + B). La Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, Brussels 1981, p. 361 f.
  • Peter Munro : The Unas cemetery north-west. Volume 1: Topographical-historical introduction. The double grave of queens Nebet and Khenut. von Zabern, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-8053-1353-5 , p. 21 f.

Web links

Commons : Userkare  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Year numbers according to T. Schneider: Lexikon der Pharaonen. Düsseldorf 2002.
  2. ^ T. Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Zurich 1994, p. 306.
  3. ↑ P. Kaplony: The cylinder seals of the Old Kingdom. Vol. II, Brussels 1981, pp. 361–362, plate 98.
predecessor Office successor
Teti II. Pharaoh of Egypt
6th Dynasty 		Pepi I.
personal data
SURNAME Userkare
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weserkerê
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian king of the 6th dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH 25th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 2335 BC Chr.