Senusret IV
Senusret IV Seneferibre
Colossal statue CG 42026 of Senusret IV, discovered in 1901 byGeorges Legrain in Karnak.[1]
Pharaoh
Reign	Year 1 II Shemu 1 (highest att.) late 17th to early 16th century BC
Predecessor	uncertain, a king whose name is lost (von Beckerath) orMentuhotep VI (new arrangement)
Successor	uncertain,Mentuhotep VI (von Beckerath) orWepwawetemsaf (new arrangement)
Royal titulary Horus name Wehemankh[2] Wḥm-ˁnḫ Horus, repeating of life Nebty name Sankhtawy[2][3] S-ˁnḫ-t3wj He who nourishes the two lands Golden Horus Neferkhaw[2][3] Nfr-ḫˁw Beautiful of apparitions Praenomen Seneferibre[2][3] S.nfr-jb-Rˁ He who delights the heart ofRa Nomen Senusret[2] S(j) n Wsrt The man ofWosret(litt. the strong one)
Dynasty	late13th dynasty,16th dynasty or early17th dynasty

Senusret IV Seneferibre was an ancient EgyptianTheban king during the lateSecond Intermediate Period that is attested only through finds fromUpper Egypt. The chronological position of Senusret IV is unclear and even the dynasty to which he belongs is debated.

The most important contemporary attestation of the king is a 2m 75 cm tall colossal statue of him, sculpted in pink granite and discovered in Karnak in 1901 byGeorges Legrain.^[4] Other attestations include a block fromEl-Tod and the upper-right corner of a stela discovered in 1907 by Legrain inKarnak and which is inscribed with the date IIShemu 1 of the first regnal year of Senusret IV.^[2][5] Finally, a lintel fromEdfu.

An axe-blade bearing the nomen Senusret have also been attributed to Senusret IV based on stylistic considerations.^[5] However, some have attributed it toSenusret I.^[6]

During the reign of Thutmose III, theKarnak king list #56(60) mentions "Senefer[...]re" which may be restored as Seneferibre, the prenomen of Senusret IV.

According toJürgen von Beckerath Senusret IV belonged to the late13th Dynasty,^[7][8] whileKim Ryholt classifies him as a king of the16th Dynasty with an uncertain position in the dynasty.^[5] Alternatively, Norbert Dautzenberg proposed that Senusret IV is part of the17th Dynasty. Dautzenberg bases this hypothesis on his reading of entry 11.4 of theTurin canon as referring to Senusret IV. He also attributesgraffiti on a gate of theMedamud temple mentioning a king "Senusret" to Senusret IV since the gate was decorated bySobekemsaf I, who lived during the early 17th Dynasty.^[9] Both arguments are rejected by Ryholt: first, Ryholt notes that the Turin canon entry 11.4 is not compatible with Senusret IV's prenomen and second, he observes that the gate of the temple of Medamud was built bySenusret III so the graffiti is likely to refer to this king rather than Senusret IV. In the new arrangement^[10] the dynasty of Senusret IV is left partially undetermined, being simply categorized as late 13th to early 17th.

• 17th-century BC pharaohs
• 16th-century BC pharaohs
• Pharaohs of the Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt
• Pharaohs of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt
• Pharaohs of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt

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