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The Karnak king list was located in the southwest corner of the Akh-Menu Hall. Composed during the reign of Thutmose III, it lists sixty-one kings beginning with Sneferu from Egypt's Old Kingdom. Only the names of forty-eight kings are still legible, and one is not written in a cartouche.

It is not a complete list of the Egyptian Pharaohs, as others kings are known from other lists, but this list is valuable as it contains the names of kings of the First and Second Intermediate periods, which are omitted in most other king lists.

In 1843, French adventurer Emile Prisse dismantled and stole the blocks containing the king list at night, claiming to act "in the interests of France." He had found out that a German expedition led by egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius was making its way up the Nile to Karnak. [1] Severely damaged, it is now on display at the Louvre in Paris (Chambre des Ancetres.)

Drawing of the Karnak King List

Pharaohs in the Karnak King List

The common name of the king followed by the actual one written in the list, in parenthesis (if known). The list is divided in the center, and is numbered from the sides, toward the center.[2]

Left side Right side
Top Row
1. Neferkare 32. Senusret III (Kha-ka-re)
2. Sneferu 33. Sobekhotep IV (Kha-nefer-re)
3. Sahure 34. Neferhotep I (Kha-sekhem-re)
4. Nyuserre Ini (Ini) 35. Sobekhotep III (Sekhem-re-se-wadj-tawy)
5. Djedkare Isesi (Isesi) 36. Sobekhotep II (Sekhem-re-khu-tawy)
6. destroyed 37. Amenemhat V (S-ankh-ib-re)
7. destroyed 38. Nebiriau I (Se-wadj-en-re)
8. Djehuti (Sekhem-re-semen-tawy) 39. ...kau(re)
Second Row
9. destroyed 40. destroyed
10. Intef 41. Neferhotep II (Mer-sekhem-re)
11. In... 42. Sobekhotep VII (Mer-kau-re)
12. Men... 43. Sobekhotep VIII? (Se-user-tawy)
13. Intef 44. ...re
14. Teti? 45. Senefer..re
15. Pepi 46. Sobekhotep V (Kha-hotep-re)
16. Merenre Nemtyemsaf I? (Mer-en-re) 47. Sobekhotep I (Kha-ankh-re)
Third Row
17. Amenemhat I (Se-hotep-ib-re) 48. Wahkhaure
18. Amenemhat II (Nebu-ka-re) 49. Senebmiu (Se-wah-en-re)
19. destroyed 50. Sobekhotep VI (Mer-hotep-re)
20. destroyed 51. Wegaf (Khu-tawi-re)
21. Amenemhat IV (Maa-khe-ru-re) 52. destroyed
22. Sobekneferu 53. destroyed
23. Intef 54. Rahotep (Sekhem-re-wah-khau)
Bottom Row
24. Senusret I (Kheper-ka-re) 55. ...re
25. Seqenenre Tao II (Se-qen-en-re) 56. Senefer..re
26. Senakhtenre Tao I (Se-nakht-en-re) 57. Sewadj..re
27. Bebiankh (Se-user-en-re) 58. Sekhem..re
28. Intef VII (Nub-kheper-re) 59. destroyed
29. Mentuhotep II (Neb-hetep-re) 60. destroyed
30. Mentuhotep III (Se-nefer-ka-re) 61. destroyed
31. Unreadable

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Monderson, Frederick. "Temple of Karnak: The Majestic Architecture of Ancient Kemet" p. 58
  2. ^ Abhandlungen der Königlichen Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1852 (1853) p.455

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