Wadjkare

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Name of Wadjkare
Horus name
G5
Aa6
F34 		N18
N18
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Demedj-ib-taui
Dmḏ-jb-t3wj Who unites
the will of the two countries
Throne name
M23
X1 		L2
X1
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N5 M13 D28
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Wadj-ka-Re
W3ḏ-k3-Rˁ
With fresh Ka , a Re

Wadjkare was an ancient Egyptian king ( pharaoh ) of the 8th Dynasty during the First Intermediate Period . He is considered an obscure ruler.

identity

Wadjkare is only recorded by name once. A small, inscribed limestone plaque , known as Koptos Decree R ( Cairo Museum ; Obj. JE 41894 ), contains a royal decree which the king is said to have written himself. In it the ruler lists punishments and condemnations against those who should dare to desecrate or steal from the temple of Min-von-Koptos . From an archaeological and Egyptological point of view, however, the decree is not considered reliable, since the Horus name Djemed-ib-taui and the cartouche name Wadjkare are not mentioned together in one sentence, contrary to the usual conventions. In addition, the name Wadjkare does not appear in any later king list. For this reason, the existence of a ruler named Wadjkare is already in doubt.

Farouk Gomaà and Georges Hayes assign the Horus name Djemed-ib-taui to a ruler named Neferirkare II , and Wadjkare equate them with a certain Hor- Chabau . Hans Goedicke sees Wadjkare as the predecessor of Djemed-ib-taui and assigns both to the 9th dynasty.

literature

  • Margaret Bunson: Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt . Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 1438109970 .
  • Hratch Papazian : The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty. In: Peter Der Manuelian , Thomas Schneider (Eds.): Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Perspectives on the Pyramid Age (= Harvard Egyptological Studies. Volume 1). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-30188-7 , pp. 393-428.
  • Nigel C. Strudwick: Texts from the Pyramid Age . BRILL, Leiden 2005, ISBN 9004130489 .
  • Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 .
  • Hans Goedicke: Royal documents from the Old Kingdom (= Egyptological treatises , Bd. 14). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1967.
  • Farouk Gomaà: Egypt during the First Intermediate Period (= supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Series B: Geisteswissenschaften. Vol. 27). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-88226-041-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Pp. 171, 310.
  2. ^ Nigel C. Strudwick: Texts from the Pyramid Age . Pp. 123-124.
  3. ^ Margaret Bunson: Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt . P. 429.
  4. ↑ Farouk Gomaa: Egypt during the First Intermediate Period . Pp. 57, 59, 127.
  5. ↑ Hans Goedicke: Royal documents from the Old Kingdom. P. 215.
predecessor Office successor
Neferirkare II ? Pharaoh of Egypt
8th Dynasty (end) 		unsure
personal data
SURNAME Wadjkare
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wadj-ka-Re
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient egyptian king
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.