Yakareb may have been a ruler of some part of

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during the

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, possibly during the 17th century BC, and likely belonging to the Fourteenth Dynasty. K.S.B. Ryholt: ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC'', Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997
excerpts available online here.
/ref>Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, , 2008, p. 500–501 As such he would have ruled from Avaris over the eastern Nile Delta and possibly over the Western Delta as well. His chronological position and identity are unclear.

Attestations

Yakareb is one of the few attested kings of the 14th Dynasty with two scarab seals attributable to him, both of unknown provenance. One of the two scarabs is currently housed in the

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, catalog number 293/73, while the other is in the Petrie Museum, under the catalog number 11810.The scarab o
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/ref> Since "Yakareb" is this king's nomen, it is not possible to assert whether or not Yakareb is listed on the

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. The Turin canon is a king list redacted in the early

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, which serves as the primary historical source for the 14th Dynasty but which records only the

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of the kings. Moreover, the document is fragmentary and Yakareb's prenomen may be lost in a

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. Thus, Yakareb is attested for certain by only the two scarabs, both of which are crudely made, and it is possible that "Yakareb" is a garbled or variant form of the name of a better known king of this time period.

Chronological position

Although the chronological position of Yakareb is uncertain, the Egyptologists

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and Darrell Baker proposed that he ruled in the 14th Dynasty some time before

Yaqub-Har Meruserre Yaqub-Har (other spelling: Yakubher, also known as Yak-Baal) was a pharaoh of Egypt during the 17th or 16th century BCE. As he reigned during Egypt's fragmented Second Intermediate Period, it is difficult to date his reign precisely, an ...

. This estimation is based on a seriation of the scarabs dating to the Second Intermediate Period.

References

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