Merkheperre
Sign in to saveMerkheperre was an Egyptian pharaoh of the late 13th Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period reigning some time between 1663 BC and 1649 BC. As such, Merkheperre would have reigned either over Upper Egypt from Thebes or over Middle and Upper Egypt from Memphis. At the time, the Eastern Nile Delta was under the domination of the 14th Dynasty.
Key facts
- Pharaoh.name
- Merkheperre
- Pharaoh.alt_name
- Mercheperre, Ra-mer-kheper
- Pharaoh.image
- Merkheperre Scarab.png
- Pharaoh.caption
- Scarab seal of pharaoh Merkheperre, now in the British Museum BM EA 42204.
- Pharaoh.reign
- unknown duration, some time between 1663 BC and 1649 BC
- Pharaoh.dynasty
- 13th dynasty
- Pharaoh.predecessor
- Mer[...]re (Ryholt) or Mershepsesre Ini II (von Beckerath)
- Pharaoh.successor
- Merkare
- Pharaoh.prenomen
- Merkheperre Mr-ḫpr-Rˁ Beloved manifestation of Ra
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Merkheperre was an Egyptian pharaoh of the late 13th Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period reigning some time between 1663 BC and 1649 BC. As such, Merkheperre would have reigned either over Upper Egypt from Thebes or over Middle and Upper Egypt from Memphis. At the time, the Eastern Nile Delta was under the domination of the 14th Dynasty.
== Attestations == Merkheperre appears on the Turin canon, a king list compiled in the early Ramesside period. According to the egyptologist Kim Ryholt, the canon gives his prenomen on the 8th column, line 17 (Gardiner entry 7.22). The Turin papyrus is damaged on the section covering the late 13th Dynasty and Merkheperre's reign length is lost in a lacuna.
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