Sewadjkare
Sign in to saveSewadjkare (more exactly Sewadjkare I) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 13th Dynasty during the early Second Intermediate Period.
Key facts
- Pharaoh.name
- Sewadjkare
- Pharaoh.alt_name
- Sewadjkare I
- Pharaoh.reign
- very short reign c. 1781 BC (Ryholt) or c. 1737 BC (Schneider)
- Pharaoh.dynasty
- 13th Dynasty
- Pharaoh.predecessor
- Sehetepibre (Ryholt & Baker), Siharnedjheritef Hotepibre (von Beckerath & Franke)
- Pharaoh.successor
- Nedjemibre
- Pharaoh.prenomen
- Sewadjkare S.w3ḏ-k3-RˁHe whom the Ka or Ra causes to flourishM23:t-L2:t-
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Evidence
- Reign length
- Identity
- References
Sewadjkare (more exactly Sewadjkare I) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 13th Dynasty during the early Second Intermediate Period.
According to Egyptologists Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker he was the eleventh ruler of the dynasty, reigning for a short time c. 1781 BC. Alternatively, Thomas Schneider, Detlef Franke and Jürgen von Beckerath see him as the tenth king of the 13th Dynasty, with Schneider placing his reign at c. 1737 BC.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sewadjkare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.