Sekhemre Wahkhau 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 on the Political Situation in Egypt, suggests that Rahotep was the first king of the 17th Dynasty. Rahotep is well known from a stela 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]

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

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 stela with translation: [1]
^ see Ryholt, op. cit.

Preceded by Sekhemre Shedwast	Pharaoh of Egypt Seventeenth Dynasty	Succeeded by Sobekemsaf I

[1] 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 stela with translation: [1]

[2] see Ryholt, op. cit.

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