| Merkheperre | ||||||||||||||||
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| Mercheperre, Ra-mer-kheper | ||||||||||||||||
![Scarab seal of pharaoh Merkheperre, now in the British Museum BM EA 42204.[1]](view_image.php?q=Merkheperre&sq=&lang=&file=File:Merkheperre_Scarab.png) Scarab seal of pharaoh Merkheperre, now in the British Museum BM EA 42204.[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||||
| Reign | unknown duration, some time between 1663 BC and 1649 BC [2] | |||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Mer[...]re (Ryholt) or Mershepsesre Ini II (von Beckerath) | |||||||||||||||
| Successor | Merkare | |||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | 13th dynasty | |||||||||||||||
Merkheperre was an Egyptian pharaoh of the late 13th Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period reigning some time between 1663 BC and 1649 BC.[2] As such, Merkheperre would have reigned either over Upper Egypt from Thebes or over Middle and Upper Egypt from Memphis. At the time, the Eastern Nile Delta was under the domination of the 14th Dynasty.
- ^ Henry Reginald Hall: Catalogue of Egyptian scarabs, etc., in the British Museum (1913) available copyright-free online scarab num. 200, see p. 21
- ^ a b K.S.B. Ryholt, 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, excerpts available online here.