Khetys

Hieroglyphic Name:
Khetys Hieroglyphic Name


Name: Khetys and Wahkare Khety

There is no contemporary demonstrate taking his name. His cartouches looks on a 12th Dynasty wooden coffin inscribed with coffin texts and originally made for a steward named Nefri, was observed in Deir el-Bersha and today is in the Cairo Museum (CG 28088). On it, Wahkare Khety's name was found once in position of Nefri's, but it is stranger if the texts were originally inscribed for the king, or if they were simply copied later from an earlier source. His name is maybe also good in the Royal canon of Turin.

Wahkare Khety was an Ancient Egyptian king of the 9th or 10th Dynasty during the First Intermediate Period. The identity operator of Wahkare Khety is contentious. While some scholars conceive that he was the break of the 9th Dynasty, many others set him in the attendant 10th Dynasty.

If Wahkare Khety was the break of the ninth Dynasty, he may be discovered with the hellenized king Achthos, the founder of this dynasty reported to Manetho. Wahkare Khety may have been a Herakleopolitan prince who gained from the failing of the Memphite rulers of the 8th Dynasty to appropriate the throne of Middle and Lower Egypt about 2150 B. C. This hypothesis is held by contemporary inscriptions consulting to the northern, Herakleopolitan kingdom as the Home of Khety, although that only evidences that the founder of the 9th Dynasty was a Khety, but not of necessity Wahkare Khety.

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