| Sekhemre Sementawy Djehuty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Djehuty, Djehuti, Dhout, Dhuti, Tahuti, Tehuti, Thuty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![Djehuti on a block from Edfu[1]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aBlock_Djehuti_by_Khruner.jpg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Reign | 3 years, c. 1650 BC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | uncertain, name lost in a lacuna of theTurin canon (Ryholt),Sobekemsaf I (von Beckerath) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Sobekhotep VIII (Ryholt),Seankhenre Mentuhotepi (von Beckerath) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Consort | queen Mentuhotep? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | uncertain16th Dynasty,[2][3] or17th Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sekhemre Sementawy Djehuty was a minor king reigning over parts ofUpper Egypt during theSecond Intermediate Period.
Djehuty is thought to be listed in the first entry of the 11th column of theTurin canon, credited with a reign of 3 years. According to EgyptologistsKim Ryholt and Darrell Baker, he was succeeded bySobekhotep VIII.[2][3] He may have been the second king[2][3] of theTheban16th Dynasty Alternatively, he may be a king of the late13th Dynasty[4] or the fourth king of the17th Dynasty.[5]
Due to a cosmetic box with the names of Djehuti found in the tomb of QueenMentuhotep, it has been speculated that she was his king's wife.
All of Djehuti's contemporary attestions come from Upper Egypt, within a 145 kilometres (90 mi) long stretch of theNile valley fromDeir el-Ballas in the north toEdfu in the south.[2] This roughly corresponds to the territory in the sphere of influence of the rulers of the 16th dynasty.[2]
AtDeir el-Ballas, nomen and prenomen of Djehuti are known from a single block discovered byFlinders Petrie.
AtEdfu, a painted block bearing Djehuti's cartouche and showing him wearing thered crown ofLower Egypt was uncovered.[1][4]
AtThebes, Djehuti is indirectly attested by objects from the burial of QueenMentuhotep atDra Abu el-Naga. This tomb was found intact in 1822 and her (now lost) coffin was inscribed with one of the earliest cases of the texts from theBook of the Dead. Mentuhotep's cosmetic box bears Djehuti's nomen, prenomen and cartouche together with funerary formulae and an inscription revealing that the box was a gift from the king.[2]
TheKarnak King List #8 (1) mentions Sekhemre Sementawy (sḫm-rꜤ smn-tꜢwi), between a lost cartouce #7 (2) and another lost cartouche 9 (16).[6]
TheTurin King List does not directly mention Djehuty, but there are several partial entries starting with Sekhemre. Thus he is sometimes associated with Turin King List 11:1.
It has been suggested that the unattributedSouthern South Saqqara pyramid may have been built for Djehuti. This hypothesis is based on a fragmentary inscription found within the pyramid and reading "Weserkha...", a possible reference toWeserkhau i.e. Djehuti'sGolden Horus name.[7] This pyramid is in the Memphis-Faiyum region, while Djehuty is mainly attested in the Thebaid region.
Djehuti's dynasty remains debated. Indeed, on this point, the Turin Canon is open to interpretations. There are several kings recorded with the name "Sekhemre[...]" and the damage to the original document does not preserve the complete name. As a result, Djehuti, named Sekhemre Sementawy, may in principle correspond to any "Sekhemre[...]" preserved on the king list, i.e. may be a ruler of the 13th, 16th and even 17th Dynasty.
The Egyptologists Darrell Baker andKim Ryholt believe that he was part of the16th Dynasty, which controlled the Theban region after 1650 BC.[3]Alternatively, two studies by Claude Vandersleyen and Christina Geisen date Djehuti's reign to the very end of theMemphite13th Dynasty.[4][8] Geisen's datation relies on stylistic considerations of his queen's coffin, which however, Stephen Quirke argues, uses unproven assumptions.[9] An older theory ofJürgen von Beckerath, whose conclusions are shared by Hans Stock, contends that Djehuti was a ruler of the early17th Dynasty, which arose inUpper Egypt after the collapse of 16th Dynasty following the short-livedHyksos conquest of Thebes. This theory is supported by the discovery of the tomb of Djehuti's queen,Mentuhotep, which is located inDra' Abu el-Naga', a necropolis usually associated with the 17th Dynasty. Scholars such as Chris Bennett however, point out that this does not necessarily mean that Djehuti was buried in Dra' Abu el-Naga' as well.[4]
Some Egyptologists proposed that Djehuti was married to a granddaughter of thevizierIbiaw who served under the 13th Dynasty kingWahibre Ibiau c. 1712–1701 BC, and was thus most likely two generations removed from this king.[10][11] In more recent times, however, it was pointed out that the link between Ibiaw and Djehuti's consort Mentuhotep is still unproven and that the proposed temporal correlation between Wahibre Ibiau and Djehuti remains conjectural.[12]
| Unknown | Pharaoh of Egypt Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt | Succeeded by |
