Bebiankh

Seuserenre Bebiankh was a native ancient Egyptian king of the 16th Theban Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period and, according to Kim Ryholt, the successor of king Semenre. He is assigned a reign of 12 years in the Turin Canon (11.8).[1]

Seuserenre Bebiankh
Bronze dagger bearing the inscription "The son of Ra, Bebiankh, given life". British Museum EA 66062.
Bronze dagger bearing the inscription "The son of Ra, Bebiankh, given life". British Museum EA 66062.
Pharaoh
Reign1603–1591 BC or
1600–1588 BC
PredecessorSemenre
SuccessorSekhemre Shedwast or Pepi III (Helck)
Royal titulary
Prenomen  (Praenomen)
Seuserenre
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He whom Ra causes to be strong
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Bebiankh
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Bebi lives
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Died1591 or 1588 BC
Dynasty16th Dynasty

Bebiankh was succeeded either by a poorly known king named Sekhemre Shedwast or by the equally shadowy ruler Seneferankhre Pepi III.[2]

Attestations

Bebiankh is principally known by a stela[3] found at Gebel Zeit that attests to mining activity conducted in this area by the Red Sea during his reign and preserves his royal names Seuserenre and Bebiankh.[4] The modest stela records this king's activities in the Gebel Zeit galena mines.[5] He is also known to have built an extension to the Temple of Medamud.[6] Bebiankh's nomen was also found on a bronze dagger found in Naqada and now in the British Museum, under the catalog number BM EA 66062.[1]

References
  1. Kim Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c.1800-1550 B.C, Museum Tusculanum Press, (1997), p. 202
  2. Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto, Wolfhart Westendorf, Stele - Zypresse: Volume 6 of Lexikon der Ägyptologie, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1986, Page 1383
  3. Georges Castel & Georges Soukiassian: Dépôt de stèles dans le sanctuaire du Nouvel Empire au Gebel Zeit, BIFAO 85 (1985), ISSN 0255-0962, pp. 291-92, pl. 64
  4. Ryholt, pp. 159-60
  5. Janine Bourriau, "The Second Intermediate Period (c.1650-1550 BC)" in Ian Shaw (ed.) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press, 2000. p.205
  6. "XVIIth Dynasty". Archived from the original on 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2007-08-15.
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