Sewadjkare III

Sewadjkare III
Sewadjkare II
Pharaoh
Reignabout 1 year, starting after c. 1699 BC [1]
PredecessorMerdjefare
SuccessorNebdjefare
Royal titulary
Prenomen  (Praenomen)
Sewadjkare
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He whom the Ka of Ra causes to flourish
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Dynasty14th dynasty

Sewadjkare III (also known as Sewadjkare II[2]) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c. 1700 BC.[1] As a king of the 14th Dynasty, Sewadjkare III would have reigned from Avaris over the eastern Nile Delta and possibly over the western Delta as well.[1]

  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ 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. 418