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 Cartouche of the name Sedjes from the Abydos King List. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Reign | Unknown | |||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | 3rd Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
Sedjes is anancient Egyptiancartouche "name" for a king (pharaoh), who is said to have ruled during the3rd Dynasty (Old Kingdom period). The lexeme appears only once in theAbydos King List as cartouche No. 18, presented as if it were the name of the direct follower of kingSekhemkhet (here namedTeti) and the direct predecessor of kingNeferkara I.[1]
In the 19th century it was thought by Egyptologists and historians to be the name of a king, because the scribes had placed the wordsedjes inside a royalcartouche. But as knowledge about Ancient Egyptian phrasing and grammars advanced, scholars realized its true meaning:sedjes means "omitted" or "missing" with the scribes using the word as apseudonym, replacing a now illegible name of a king. They encircled it with a royal cartouche to mark it as a king's name, but following generations of scribes erroneously took it as the actual birth name of the to-be listed king. A similar case can be observed with the ominous cartouche nameHudjefa, also used as a pseudonym for missing royal names. Today, it is passionately disputed which king of the 3rd Dynasty was meant to be denoted in cartouche No. 18.[2][3][4]
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