| Dedumose I | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dudimose, Dudumesu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![Stele of Djedhotepre Dedumose I, 1908 photography by Alessandro Barsanti.[1]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aDjedhotepre_Dedumose_stele.png) Stele of Djedhotepre Dedumose I, 1908 photography byAlessandro Barsanti.[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Reign | 17th century BC or 16th century BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | uncertain,Bebiankh (new arrangement),Djedankhre Montemsaf (J. Beckerath) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Dedumose II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | uncertain, possibly Dedumose II, Khonsuemwaset, Sobekhotep[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 16th Dynasty (Ryholt) or13th Dynasty (J. von Beckerath) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Djedhotepre Dedumose I was an Egyptianpharaoh of theSecond Intermediate Period. According to egyptologistsKim Ryholt, Darrell Baker, Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton, he was a king of the16th Dynasty.[2][3][4] Alternatively,Jürgen von Beckerath,Thomas Schneider andDetlef Franke see him as a king of the13th Dynasty.[5][6][7][8]
Djedhotepre Dedumose is mentioned on stela found in July 1908 in the southern part of theTell ofEdfu.[1] The stele belongs to aking's son andcommanderKhonsuemwaset ("Khonsu is inWaset"). It is not known whether the latter was indeed the son of the king or ifking's son is here only the title, which was not necessarily reserved to the actual children of a king. Another king of the Second Intermediate Period bears the name Dedumose:Djedneferre Dedumose II. Given the rarity of the name Dedumose, it is possible that he was the son of Dedumose I.
A number of artefacts name a king Dedumose but without providing the prenomen, it is difficult to decide to which Dedumose they belong.[3] For example, a stela of an official Harsekher fromEdfu[9] states that the King's Son Harsekher, son of the King's Son Sobekhotep is related to a king Dedumose,[3] which Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton identify as Dedumose I.[2][10]
Precise dates for Dedumose are unknown, but if he was a king of the 13th Dynasty, his reign probably ended around 1690BC while if he was a king of the 16th Dynasty, he would possibly have reigned between 1588 BC and 1582 BC, in the final years of the 16th Dynasty.[3] Ryholt believes that facing the invasion of his territory by theHyksos, Dedumose tried to sue them for peace, as indicated by his names "The peace of Ra is stable; He who brings peace; He who rescues the Two Lands".[3]
