| Yakareb | ||||||||||||||
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| Yak'reb, Yekeb-Baal, Yakba'al(?), Yekeb-Bor, Ykb-l | ||||||||||||||
![Scarab of Yakareb photographed by Flinders Petrie and now in the Petrie Museum[1][2]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aYakareb_scarab.png) | ||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||
| Reign | unknown duration | |||||||||||||
| Predecessor | unknown | |||||||||||||
| Successor | unknown | |||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | uncertain, possibly14th dynasty | |||||||||||||
Yakareb may have been a ruler of some part ofEgypt during theSecond Intermediate Period, possibly during the 17th century BC, and likely belonging to theFourteenth Dynasty.[3][4] As such he would have ruled fromAvaris over the easternNile Delta and possibly over the Western Delta as well. His chronological position and identity are unclear.
Yakareb is one of the few attested kings of the 14th Dynasty with twoscarab seals attributable to him, both of unknown provenance.[3][4] One of the two scarabs is currently housed in theEgyptian Museum of Berlin, catalog number 293/73, while the other is in thePetrie Museum, under the catalog number 11810.[3][5][6][7]
Since "Yakareb" is this king'snomen, it is not possible to assert whether or not Yakareb is listed on theTurin canon. The Turin canon is a king list redacted in the earlyRamesside period, which serves as the primary historical source for the 14th Dynasty but which records only theprenomen of the kings. Moreover, the document is fragmentary and Yakareb's prenomen may be lost in alacuna.[4] Thus, Yakareb is attested for certain by only the two scarabs, both of which are crudely made, and it is possible that "Yakareb" is a garbled or variant form of the name of a better known king of this time period.[6]
Although the chronological position of Yakareb is uncertain, the EgyptologistsKim Ryholt and Darrell Baker proposed that he ruled in the 14th Dynasty some time beforeYaqub-Har. This estimation is based on aseriation of the scarabs dating to the Second Intermediate Period.[3]
