Sekhemre Khutawy was an Egyptian king of the 13th Dynasty

Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt

The thirteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt is often combined with Dynasties XI, XII and XIV under the group title Middle Kingdom. Other writers separate it from these dynasties and join it to Dynasties XIV through XVII as part of the Second Intermediate Period...

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Evidence

Sekhemre-Khutawy is named in the Nile Flood records (providing a year date '4') at Semna

Semna (Nubia)

Semna was a fortified town established in the reign of Senusret I on the west bank of the Nile at the southern end of a series of fortresses founded during the 12th Dynasty in the second-cataract area of Lower Nubia. The Semna gorge, at the southern edge of ancient Egypt, was the narrowest part...

 near the second cataracts

Cataracts of the Nile

The cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths of the Nile between Aswan and Khartoum where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones protruding out of the river bed, as well as many rocky islets. Aswan is also the Southern boundary of Upper Egypt...

. He built in Deir el-Bahari and is mentioned in inscriptions at the Monthu temple at Medamud

Medamud

Medamud was a settlement in Ancient Egypt. Its present-day territory is located about 8 km east-north from Luxor. The temple was excavated by Fernand Bisson de la Roque in 1925, who identified several structures dedicated to the war-god Monthu....

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Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep

A king with the name Khutawyre appears in the Turin King List

Turin King List

The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is a hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Ramesses II, now in the Museo Egizio at Turin...

 as the first ruler of the 13th Dynasty. But this king is thought to be Khutawyre Wegaf. A king named Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep II

Sobekhotep II

birth name: Sobekhotep throne name: Sekhemre KhutawySobekhotep II was an Egyptian king of the 13th Dynasty.He is known from several monuments, including a statue, several Nile level records in Nubia and from building works at Medamud and Luxor...

 appears later in the 13th dynasty.

Some researchers, especially Kim Ryholt

Kim Ryholt

Kim S B Ryholt is a Danish Egyptologist, who works at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Copenhagen....

, have argued that the writer of the King list confused the name Khutawyre with the name Sekhemre-Khutawy and they place Wegaf

Wegaf

Khutawyre Wegaf was an Egyptian king of the 13th Dynasty who is known from several sources, including a stelae and statues. There is a general known from a scarab with the same name who is perhaps identical with this king....

 in the middle of the 13th Dynasty and Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep at the beginning of the dynasty. The problem is not yet resolved. Ryholt believes that Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep I was a son of Amenemhet IV.
Sobekhotep I

Sobekhotep I

Sobekhotep I was an Egyptian king of the 13th Dynasty.-Evidence:He appears in the Turin King List as Sobekhotep and is otherwise mainly known from reliefs coming from a chapel set up in Abydos and from a fragment of a column. His reign was most likely only very short...

 appears in some of the literature as Khaankhre Sobekhotep I however.

Sekhemre Khutawy Pantjeny

Sekhemre Khutawy Pantjeny is a local ruler from Abydos probably contemporary with the 16th dynasty

Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt

The sixteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt was a dynasty of pharaohs that ruled in Upper Egypt for 50 years during the Second Intermediate Period The sixteenth dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty XVI) was a dynasty of pharaohs that ruled in Upper Egypt for 50 years during the Second Intermediate...

. His prenomen is Sekhemre Khutawy and his nomen is Pantjeni. This king is known from a stela found at Abydos dedicated to the King's Son Djehutya and the King's Daughter Hotepnofru. The stela is presently in the British Museum (BA EA 630).

External links

• list of monuments