Khui
| Khui | ||||||||||||||||
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![Relief fragment with the cartouche of Khui from a mastaba in Dara.[1]](/translate/en.wikipedia.org?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AKhui.png&t=hv) Relief fragment with the cartouche of Khui from a mastaba in Dara.[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Reign | Duration unknown, c. 2150 BCE? | |||||||||||||||
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| Burial | Pyramid of Khui? | |||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | possibly8th Dynastyor a local kinglet | |||||||||||||||
Khuiwas anancient Egyptiankinglet during the earlyFirst Intermediate Period.Khui may have belonged to theEighth Dynasty of Egypt,asJürgen von Beckerathhas proposed,[2]or he may instead have been a provincial nomarch who proclaimed himself king.
Attestation
[edit]Khui is not known from historical sources and the only certain attestation of his existence is a fragmentary relief on a stone block showing hiscartouchewhich was published in 1912 by theEgyptologistAhmed Bey Kamaland later republished byRaymond Weill.The block was excavated from amastabatomb of thenecropolisof Dara nearManfalut.[1]This necropolis is dominated by a massive funerary structure which was hastily attributed to this obscure king (the so-calledPyramid of Khui), assuming that the block came from its almost disappearedmortuary temple.[3][4]
Pharaoh or nomarch
[edit]Based on the cartouche surrounding Khui's name on the relief from Dara, Egyptologists including Jürgen von Beckerath have proposed that he was a king of the early First Intermediate Period, belonging to the Eighth Dynasty.
On the other hand, EgyptologistsBarry KempandToby Wilkinsonbelieve it more likely that Khui was anomarch,that is a provincial governor, who took advantage of thepower vacuumfollowing the collapse of theOld Kingdomand proclaimed himself king, in the same way as the coeval and neighboringHeracleopolitefounders of the9th Dynasty.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^abKamal, Ahmed Bey (1912)."Fouilles à Dara et à Qoçéîr el-Amarna".Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte.p. 132.
{{cite journal}}:CS1 maint: location (link) - ^Jürgen von Beckerath,Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen,München-Berlin,Deutscher Kunstverlag,1984, p. 60,ISBN3422008322.
- ^Mark Lehner,The Complete Pyramids,Thames & Hudson,ISBN978-0-500-28547-3,p. 164
- ^Egyptian History Dyn. 6-11
- ^Barry Kemp,Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization,2nd ed., New York, Routledge, 2006, pp. 338-339.
- ^Toby Wilkinson,The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt,New York, Random House, 2010, p. 123.
Bibliography
[edit]- Jürgen von Beckerath,Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägypten,Zabern Verlag Mainz, 1994, p. 151.ISBN3-8053-2310-7.
- Thomas Schneider,Lexikon der Pharaonen,Düsseldorf, Albatros Verlag, 2002, p. 104.ISBN3-491-96053-3.
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