Sunday, March 04, 2012

A New 17th Dynasty Pharaoh was discovered

Luxor Times

During his visit yesterday to Karnak temple, Dr. Mohamed Ibrahim (Minister state of Antiquities) announced the discovery of a new pharaoh’s name from the 17th dynasty that was not known to Egyptologists which helps in revealing the chronological order of the Kings of this dynasty.

It was the IFAO mission headed by Christophe Thiers that found a limestone door at the north of Amon’s temple dated back to 17th dynasty with hieroglyphics inscriptions and a royal cartouche bears the name of a King that didn’t appear before in ancient Egyptian history and the name is “Sen Nakht N’ Ra”

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Errr what?! Senakhtenra has been known for years!

Most chronological reconstitutions of the late Second Intermediate Period (17th Dynasty) consider him as Seqenenra Djehuty-Aa (Taa)'s predecessor.
He's mentioned by the "Karnak king list", so it's not really surprising that traces of his activity in the temple have finally been found.

As for the chronological implications of this discovery, it's hard to tell from that article... The interesting bit is that the king had access to the quarries of Tura, which means he had some kind of control over the region. If his position in the late 17th Dynasty is correct, then we should reconsider what we thought we knew about the political situation of the late Second Intermediate Period.

Anonymous said...

I've found the proper (and accurate) report of the discovery:

http://www.cfeetk.cnrs.fr/uk/index.php?page=senakhtenre

I guess the Luxor Times got things mixed up a little bit...

Anonymous said...

The full and proper report of the discovery:
http://www.cfeetk.cnrs.fr/index.php?page=senakhtenre

Andie said...

Many thanks, Anonymous - the comments and link are much appreciated

Anonymous said...

You're welcome!

It's so frustrating that they didn't mention his Son of Ra name in the press release... Was it Taa, Siamun (as K. Ryholt argued) or something else?

PL said...

Yeah, this is not a "new" pharaoh. Se-nakht-en-ra is mentioned on the Marsielle Offering table (no. 3), in the Karnak king list (no. 26) and his name can be seen on at least one plate in Lepsius' Denkmaler (III-12d)

Ann P.T. Savage said...

I dont think we should be jumping the gun on this LIMESTONE DOOR in Temple of Amun news....lets look at it from a new perspective say
in 3weeks...more information may come to light....
Patricia Turner-Savage