Rahotep
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- Rahotep was also the name of an Egyptian prince during the fourth dynasty, see Prince Rahotep
Rahotep (or more properly Sekhenrewahkhaw Rahotep) was an Egyptian king who reigned during the Second Intermediate Period, when Egypt was ruled by multiple kings. Kim Ryholt, in his book The Political Situation in Egypt, suggests that Rahotep was the first king of the 17th Dynasty. Rahotep is well known from a stele found at Koptos reporting the restoration of the temple.[1] Otherwise he is only known from the stela of an official and from the bow of a king's son. His name appears in the Karnak king list.[2]
[edit] Bibliography
- Kim Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications), vol. 20. (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), pp. 392-93, File 17/1 ISBN 87-7289-421-0
[edit] References
- ^ H.M. Stewart: Egyptian Stelae, Reliefs and Paintings from the Petrie Collection. Part Two: Archaic to Second Intermediate Period, Warminster 1979, 17-18, no. 78, an image of the stele with translation: [1]
- ^ see Ryholt, op. cit.
| Preceded by Unknown |
Pharaoh of Egypt Seventeenth Dynasty |
Succeeded by Sobekemsaf I |
