| Preceded by: Djed…re (indirectly?) |
Pharaoh of Egypt 14th Dynasty (?) |
Succeeded by: Menibre (?) | ||||||||||||||||||
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- For other pages by this name, see Pepi.
Seneferankhre Pepi III (transliteration: ppy) may have been a Pharaoh of the Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period. He is merely attested by a single scarab-shaped seal bearing his name.
Chronological Position[]
Pepi III may be identical to the Senefer…re in the Turin King List (Col 9. Line 7 as per Gardiner),[1] making him a pharaoh of the Canaanite 14th Dynasty. According to Wolfgang Helck[2] and Jürgen von Beckerath[3] he was a ruler of the 16th Dynasty, which they view as consisting of vassals of the Hyksos. According to Danish Egyptologist Kim Ryholt, however, Pepi's scarab-seal stylisticly does not belong to the Second Intermediate Period. Ryholt dates the seal to the First Intermediate Period instead, noting however that this is a very early date for a scarab-seal.[4] The earliest scarabs otherwise appear only with the reign of Senusret III of the late 12th Dynasty during the Middle Kingdom.[5]
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Beckerath, J. von, 1964: Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten. Glückstadt.
- Beckerath, J. von, 1997: Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägyptens. Münchner Ägyptologische Studien, Vol. 46. Mainz am Rhein.
- Gardiner, A., 1987: The Royal Canon of Turin. Griffith Institute, Oxford.
- Helck, W./Otto, E./Westendorf, W., 1986: Stele - Zypresse: Volume 6 of Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag.
- Ryholt, K., 1997: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c.1800-1550 B.C. Museum Tuscalanum Press.
- Siesse, J., 2016: An unpublished Scarab of Queen Tjan (Thirteenth Dynasty) from the Louvre Museum (AF 6755). In: Gianluca Miniaci, Wolfram Grajetzki (eds.): The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC), Vol. ii, London.
| Predecessor: Djed…re (indirectly?) |
Pharaoh of Egypt 14th Dynasty (?) |
Successor: Menibre (?) |