Sewadjkare Hori (also known as Hori II) was a
pharaoh of the late
13th Dynasty
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, possibly the thirty-sixth king of this dynasty.
He reigned over
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and
Upper Egypt for five years, either during the early or mid-17th century, from 1669 until 1664 BC
or from 1648 until 1643 BC.
Attestation
Sewadjkare Hori is only known for certain from the
Turin canon, row 8, column 7 (
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, von Beckerath: row 7, column 7). The Turin canon provides the
prenomen Sewadjkare and the
nomen Hori for this king.
Jürgen von Beckerath assigns to him a stone fragment from
El-Tod inscribed with the prenomen "Sewadj
..e". However, since there are two other rulers from the
Second Intermediate Period bearing the same prenomen, this identification remains conjectural.
[Jürgen von Beckerath: ''Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten'', Glückstadt 1964, S. 61, 254 (XIII 31.)]
Identity
Sewadjkare Hori should not be confused with
Sewadjkare, a pharaoh of the early 13th Dynasty, and with another
Sewadjkare III
Sewadjkare III (also known as Sewadjkare IIDarrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, , 2008, p. 418) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Fourteenth Dynasty ...
from the mid
14th Dynasty. Both of these pharaohs enjoyed shorter reigns than Sewadjkare Hori.
[ 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]
References
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17th-century BC Pharaohs
Pharaohs of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt