| Sebkay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sebekay, Sebekāi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Closeup of the ivory wand showing the king's name. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | uncertain date | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | 13th Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sebkay (alternatively Sebekay or Sebekāi[1]) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Second Intermediate Period. For a long time his position created problems and he was most often placed into the 13th Dynasty. However, the discovery of the tomb of a king with the name Senebkay make it very likely that Sebkay is identical with the latter and the writing of the name Sebkay is just a misspelling of the name.[2]
Very little is known about him, since his name is attested only on a wooden birth Tusk (wand) found at Abydos and now in the Cairo Museum (CG 9433 / JE 34988).[3]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
JVBwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Ilin-Tomich, Alexander, 2016, Second Intermediate Period. In Wolfram Grajetzki and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz002k7jm9 p. 10
- ^ Georges Daressy, Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire: Textes et dessins magiques. Le Caire: Imprimerie de L'institut Français D'archéologie Orientale (1903), pl. XI.