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 Lintel with the cartouche of Khuiqer, from Abydos. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Khuiqer was anancient Egyptianpharaoh known only for alimestonelintel bearing part of hisroyal titulary, found inAbydos by British EgyptologistFlinders Petrie at the beginning of the 20th century; the lintel is now located at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (E 17316 A-B).[2] His datation is extremely uncertain since he was tentatively placed in both theFirst and theSecond Intermediate Period.
After the finding of the lintel, Petrie believed the royal name to beUaqerre but was doubtful about his datation, and simply placed him between theSeventh and theFourteenth Dynasties. Shortly after,Gaston Maspero attributed the mysterious king to theSixth to theEleventh Dynasty of Egypt range.Max Pieper more correctly read the nameKhuiqer, claiming that this king should have reigned between theThirteenth and the18th Dynasties.Ludwig Borchardt came to the same conclusion, while in 1907Henri Gauthier, following instead Maspero, placed him again in the First Intermediate Period.[1][2] When, more recently, the GermanEgyptologistDetlef Franke proposed the existence of theAbydos Dynasty[3] (a dynasty of local pharaohs who might have shortly ruled upon the Abydene territory during the Second Intermediate Period), he placed Khuiqer inside of it.Jürgen von Beckerath attributed him to the Second Intermediate Period too, following the claim that the block came from a building ofSenusret I, although he admitted that Khuiqer'sHorus name,Merut, seemed peculiar for this period.[2] This Horus name was also the main topic forKim Ryholt's attribution: he argued thatMerut is too simple when compared to the Horus names of the Second Intermediate Period, which usually are composed or two or even three different words. Ryholt then suggested an earlier placement for Khuiqer, at an imprecise time during the First Intermediate Period.[4]
