Nikare (also Nikare I) was an ancient Egyptian

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of the Eighth Dynasty during the early First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC), at a time when Egypt was possibly divided between several

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. According to the Egyptologists

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and Darrell Baker he was the ninth king of the Eighth Dynasty.Kim Ryholt: "The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris", Zeitschrift für ägyptische, 127, 2000, p. 99Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, , 2008, p. 280-281

: ''Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen'', Münchner ägyptologische Studien, Heft 49, Mainz : P. von Zabern, 1999,
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see p. 66-67 As such, Nikare's seat of power would have been

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Attestations

Nikare is only known for certain thanks to the Abydos King List, a king list redacted during the reign of

Seti I Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c.1294 or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. He was the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II. The ...

, where his name appears on the 48th entry. Nikare may also have been mentioned on the Turin canon but his name and duration of reign are lost to a large

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affecting kings 2 through 11 of the Eighth Dynasty.

Artefacts

According to the Egyptologist Peter Kaplony, a single faience cylinder-seal may possibly bear Nikare's name, and could thus be the only contemporary attestation of this king. A gold plaque, now in the

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, is inscribed with his name along with that of

Neferkamin Neferkamin may have been an Eighth Dynasty pharaoh of ancient Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. His throne name "Sneferka" is attested on the Abydos King List (n. 47) although it is possible that here the name is mistyped, and the O3 ...

, however it is now believed that this object is a modern forgery.Gold plaque EA 8444 in the British Museum.
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References

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