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Amenemhat Amenemḥat or Amenemhēt , hellenized as Ammenémēs (Eusebius: Ἀμμενέμης) or as Ammanémēs (Africanus: Ἀμμανέμης),Carl Müller, Victor Langlois, Theodor Müller (1848) ''Historicum Graecorum fragmenta'', Volume 2, p. 557, ...

, for other individuals with this name.'' Sekhemkare Amenemhat V was an Egyptian

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of the

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during the

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. According to Egyptologists

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and Darrell Baker, he was the 4th king of the dynasty, reigning from 1796 BC until 1793 BC.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), 336-337, file 13/2 and 13/4.Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, , 2008 The identity of Amenemhat V is debated by a minority of Egyptologists, as he could be the same person as Sekhemkare Amenemhat Sonbef, the second ruler of the 13th Dynasty.

Attestations

Amenemhat V is attested on column 7, line 7 of the

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, which credits him with a reign of three to four years. This may be confirmed by a papyrus from

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