Semenre, also Smenre or Semenenre,von Beckerath 1984, pp. 126-27 is a poorly attested Theban

pharaoh Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian: '' pr ꜥꜣ''; cop, , Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until th ...

during the

Second Intermediate Period of Egypt The Second Intermediate Period marks a period when ancient Egypt fell into disarray for a second time, between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the start of the New Kingdom. The concept of a "Second Intermediate Period" was coined in 1942 by ...

who succeeded the equally obscure

Nebiriau II Nebiriau II (also Nebiryraw II, Nebiryerawet II) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Theban-based 16th Dynasty, during the Second Intermediate Period. Identity He is commonly assumed by some Egyptologists to be the son of his predecessor N ...

. He reigned from 1601 to 1600 BC (

Kim Ryholt Kim Steven Bardrum Ryholt (born 19 June 1970) is a professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen and a specialist on Egyptian history and literature. He is director of the research centeCanon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Litera ...

)Ryholt 1997, p. 202 or ca. 1580 BC (

Detlef Franke Detlef Franke (November 24, 1952 in Lüneburg – September 2, 2007) was a German Egyptologist specialist of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. Biography Detlef Franke received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1983 with his thesis "''A ...

) and belonged to the 16th Dynasty (Ryholt) or the 17th Dynasty (Franke). For this ruler only the throne name is known, carved on a tin-

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids suc ...

axe head of unknown provenance, now in the

Petrie Museum The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material ...

, London (UC30079). He is possibly also listed on the

Turin Canon The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is an ancient Egyptian hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II, now in the Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum) in Turin. The papyrus is the most extensive list ...

(11.7).
Semenre was succeeded by

Seuserenre Bebiankh Seuserenre Bebiankh was a native ancient Egyptian king of the 16th Theban Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period and, according to Kim Ryholt, the successor of king Semenre. He is assigned a reign of 12 years in the Turin Canon (11.8).Kim ...

who left behind more traces of building projects and mining activity in his reign than most kings of this dynasty with the exception of Djehuti.Darrell D. Baker: ''The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs'', Volume I: ''Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC)'', Bannerstone Press, London 2008, , p. 375.

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