Sekhemre Wahkhau Rahotep

For the prince of the 4th Dynasty, see Prince Rahotep.
Sekhemre Wahkhau Rahotep
Rehotep, Rahotpe, Rehotpe, Sekhem-uah-kha-ra, Sekhemre Wa-ka'u[1]
Rahotep (raising arms) while offering to Osiris. Stele BM EA 833, drawn by Wallis Budge.[2]
Rahotep (raising arms) while offering to Osiris. Stele BM EA 833, drawn by Wallis Budge.[2]
Pharaoh
Reign1580 BC – 1576 BC[3]
SuccessorSobekemsaf I or Nebmaatre
Royal titulary
Horus name
Wah-Ankh
ˁnḫ-w3ḥ
Enduring of life
G5
V29S34
Nebty name
User-Renput
Wsr-rnpwt
Powerful in years
G16
wsrsr
D36		 M4M4M4
Golden Horus
Wadj[...]
bik-nbw-w3ḏ-[...]
The Golden Falcon who regains strength [...]
G8M14HASH

Karnak king list:
[Sekhem]rewahkhau[4][3]
[Sḫm]-Rˁ-w3ḥ-ḫˁw
[Mighty is] Re, enduring of apparitions
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N5HASHV29N28
Z2
>
Prenomen  (Praenomen)
Sekhemre-Wahkhau
sḫm-rˁ w3ḥ-ḫaw
Mighty is Re, enduring of apparitions
M23L2
N5S42V29N28
Z2
Nomen
Rahotep
Rˁ ḥtp
Ra is satisfied
G39N5
r
D36		 N5
Z1		 R4
t p
Dynasty17th Dynasty

Sekhemre Wahkhau Rahotep was an Egyptian pharaoh who reigned during the Second Intermediate Period, when Egypt was ruled by multiple kings. The Egyptologists Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker believe that Rahotep was the first king of the 17th Dynasty.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 341-342.
  2. ^ Wallis Budge: Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, &c., in the British Museum, Part IV, London: Printed by order of the Trustees [by] Harrison and Sons, 1913, available not-in-copyright here, pl. 24.
  3. ^ a b c Ryholt, K.S.B.: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, (1997). OL 474149M. ISBN 8772894210. LCCN 98-198517.
  4. ^ Number 54 on the Karnak king list