| Sewahenre Senebmiu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sonbmiu, Sonbmijew, Senebmaui | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![Drawing by Wallis Budge of a fragment of a limestone stele of Senebmiu, from Gebelein.[1]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aSenebmiu.png) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | after 1660 BC, possibly for 1 year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | uncertain, Se[...]kare (von Beckerath)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | 13th Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sewahenre Senebmiu (alsoSonbmiu) is a poorly attestedEgyptianpharaoh during theSecond Intermediate Period, thought to belong to the late13th Dynasty.
Senebmiu is a poorly attested pharaoh. Contemporary attestations of Senebmiu are few and all originate fromUpper Egypt. Darrell Baker and Daphna Ben Tor suggest that this may signal that the 13th Dynasty had lost control ofLower and possiblyMiddle Egypt at the time.[4][5]
A fragment of a limestone stele discovered by G.W. Fraser in 1893 inGebelein and now in theBritish Museum (BM EA 24898) bears the mention "The son ofRa, of his body, Senebmiu". The stele once depicted the king wearing the double crown and probably making an offering, but most of the relief is lost.
An attestation of Senebmiu was uncovered in the mortuary temple ofMentuhotep II atDeir el-Bahri, where the side of a smallnaos is inscribed with the king's titulary.[4][6][3]
A staff bearing the king's prenomen and inscribed for the "Royal sealer, overseer of marshland dwellers Senebni" was found in a now-lost tomb inQurna on the west bank of the Nile opposite Karnak.[4]
TheKarnak king list entry 49, redacted during the reign ofThutmose III, mentions his prenomen Sewahenre afterSekhemre Wahkhau Rahotep.[4]
TheTurin canon, redacted during the time ofRamesses II, is severely damaged after the record ofSobekhotep VII and the identity and chronological order of the last 19 kings of the 13th Dynasty is impossible to ascertain from the document.[6] Senebmiu'sprenomenSewahenre may have been partially preserved on column 8, line 16 of the papyrus, which readsSe[...]enre. Darrell Baker andKim Ryholt note that this attribution is far from certain as it could also correspond to another obscure king of this period with the nameSekhaenre.[4]
According to EgyptologistJürgen von Beckerath, he was the forty-first king of the 13th Dynasty.[2][7][8] Alternatively, Darrell Baker proposes that he may have been its fifty-seventh ruler.[4]Kim Ryholt only specifies that Senebmiu's short reign dates to between 1660 BC and 1649 BC.[6]
