Pharaohs of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt - Merneferre Ay, Khendjer, Neferhotep I, Sobekhotep III, Sobekmerneferre Ay, Khendjer, Neferhotep I, Sobekhotep III, Sobekhotep IV, Hor, Merhotepre Ini, Wegaf Hotep IV, Hor, Merhotepre Ini, Wegaf (Paperback)

Chapters: Merneferre Ay, Khendjer, Neferhotep I, Sobekhotep Iii, Sobekhotep Iv, Hor, Merhotepre Ini, Wegaf, Sedjefakare, Imyremeshaw, Renseneb, Sekhemre Khutawy, Dudimose, Sobekhotep V, Semenkare, Sankhenre Sewadjtu, Wahibre Ibiau, Sekhemkare, Sewadjkare Hori, Intef V, Ameny Qemau, Mentuhotep V. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Khendjer was an Egyptian king (throne name: Userkare) of the 13th Dynasty. The name Khendjer is poorly attested in Egyptian. Khendjer "has been interpreted as a foreign name hnzr and equated with the Semitic personal name h(n)zr, 'boar'" according to the Danish Egyptologist Kim Ryholt. He notes that this identification is confirmed by the fact that the name h(n)zr is written as hzr in a variant spelling of this king's name on a seal from this king's reign. Ryholt states that the word 'boar' is "attested as huzru in Akkadian, hinzr in Arabic, hazr in Aramaic, hazr in Hebrew (the name is attested as hzr in I Chron. 24:15, Neh. 10:20) hu-zi-ri in the Nuzi texts, hnzr in Ugarit, and perhaps hi-zi-ri in Amorite." Khendjer was, therefore, the earliest known Semitic king of a native Egyptian dynasty. Khendjer's prenomen or throne name, Userkare, translates as "The Soul of Re is Powerful." The latest attested date for his reign is the fourth month of the season of Akhet (inundation), day 15 in his fifth regnal year. Kim Ryholt notes that two dated control notes on stone blocks from his unfinished pyramid complex give him a minimum reign of 4 years 3 months and 5 days. The aforementioned control notes are dated to Year 1 I Akhet day 10 and Year 5 IV Akhet day 15 of his reign. Drawing of Khendjer's unfinished Saqqara tombKhendjer is known primarily from his pyramid complex excavated by G. Jequier at Saqqara which was perhaps compl...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=135406