| Seheqenre Sankhptahi | |
|---|---|
| Sehekaenre Seankhptah, Se'anchptah[1] | |
 Detail of the stele of Nebsumenu depicting pharaoh Seheqenre Sankhptahi offeringms.t oil to the godPtah,National Archaeological Museum of Spain. | |
| Pharaoh | |
| Reign | unknown duration |
| Predecessor | unknown[1][2] |
| Successor | unknown[1][2] |
| Father | uncertain, possibly Se...kare[2] |
| Dynasty | 13th dynasty |
Seheqenre Sankhptahi was apharaoh of the late13th Dynasty, possibly the fifty-fourth[1] or fifty-fifth[2] king of this dynasty. He most likely reigned for a short period over theMemphite region during the mid-17th century BC, some time between 1663 BC and 1649 BC.[2]
A stele of unknown provenance, although probably Memphite in origin,[1] and dated on stylistic grounds to theSecond Intermediate Period presents a list of members of a royal family and gives the king's son name as[?]-ptḥ-i. If this prince is the future pharaoh Seheqenre Sankhptahi as Ryholt proposes, then pharaohSe[...]kare is his father andMinemsaes andSit[...] are his sisters.[2] The stele is housed in theEgyptian Museum (CG20600).
Of Unknown Provenance, a round-topped stela dated to Year 1 of Sehekaenre Sankhiptah.[3][4]
Pharaoh Seheqenre Sankhptahi is named and represented on the stele ofroyal sealer andoverseer of sealers Nebsumenu.Kim Ryholt notes that it depicts Sankhptahi offering oil to the god Ptah (defaced) "He who is south of his wall" (rsy-snb=f) and toAnubis (defaced) "Lord of bandagers" (nb wtyw), both of which areepithets from the Memphite region.[2] Ryholt concludes that Seheqenre Sankhptahi probably reigned overMemphis and thus belongs to the13th dynasty, which had control over the region at the time. Furthermore, Ryholt suggests that Sankhptahi may himself have been born in Memphis, as indicated by histheophorous name based on Ptah, the god of the city.[2]
TheTurin canon 8:25 contains the damaged prenomen[?]ḳ-n-Rˁ. Ryholt remarks that Seheqenre is the only king of the period whose name matches these signs and reads[S.ḥ]ḳ-n-Rˁ[1][2]
Ryholt points to a blue-greensteatite cylinder seal of unknown provenance and bearing the golden horus name Sekhaenptah,S.ḫˁ-n-ptḥ,He whom Ptah causes to appear, as maybe belonging to Seheqenre Sankhptahi.Percy Newberry simply dates the seal to "about the end of the Middle Kingdom" without further identification of its owner. The seal is probably lost: originally in the Timmins collection housed in theMetropolitan Museum of Art, it is now reportedly missing from the museum.[1]
