Wahibre Ibiau (throne name: Wahibre; birth name: Ibiau, also Ibiaw, Iaib, or Ia-ib) was an
ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the
13th Dynasty
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, who reigned c. 1670 BC for 10 years 8 months and 29 days according to the
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.
Attestations
Despite a relatively long reign for the period, Wahibre Ibiau is known from only a few objects, mostly
scarab seals bearing his name. He is also named on the
stela
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of an official named Sahathor, probably from
Thebes. Finally, a fragment of
faience
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from
El-Lahun mentions this king.
A notable member of Ibiau's royal court was the namesake
vizier
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Ibiau. It has been suggested that this vizier could have been the same person as the pharaoh Ibiau earlier in his life, but in more recent times it was pointed out that such an identification is conjectural and unproven.
Wolfram Grajetzki
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, ''Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom'', London 2009, p. 40.
See also
*
List of pharaohs
References
Bibliography
*
K. S. B. Ryholt, ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period'' (''Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, c. 1800–1550 BC'', vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), 353–54, File 13/32.
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17th-century BC Pharaohs
Pharaohs of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt