| Hudjefa I in hieroglyphs | |||||||||
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| Reign: possibly 2 years | |||||||||
| Predecessor: Neferkasokar Successor: Khasekhemwy | |||||||||
Hudjefa Ḥw-ḏf3 Turin canon | |||||||||
Hudjefa Ḥw-ḏf3 Sakkara kinglist | |||||||||
Hudjefa (Ancient Egyptian for "erased" or "missing") is the pseudonym for a 2nd Dynasty pharaoh as reported on the Turin canon, a list of kings written during the reign of Ramses II. Hudjefa is now understood to mean that the name of the king was already missing from the document from which the Turin canon was copied. The length of the reign associated to Hudjefa on the canon is 11 years.[1] Because of the position of Hudjefa on the Turin list, he is sometimes identified with a king Sesochris reported in the Aegyptiaca, a history of Egypt written by the Egyptian priest Manetho in the 3rd century BC. Manetho credits this pharaoh with 48 years of reign. Egyptologists have attempted to relate Hudjefa with archaeologically attested kings of the period, in particular Seth-Peribsen.
- ^ Gardiner, Alan H. (1997). The Royal Canon of Turin. Oxford: Griffith Institute of Oxford. ISBN 0-900416-48-3. p. 15 and Table I.