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Sobekneferu was the first confirmed woman to rule Egypt in her own right as 'female king' and the first to adopt the full royal titulary. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] She was also the first ruler associated with the crocodile god Sobek by name, whose identity appears in both her birth and throne names. [ 29 ]
The Statue of Sobekneferu was a sculpture of the ancient Egyptian queen Sobekneferu (about 1800 BC), who reigned during the 12th Dynasty. This bust is the first known statue of the queen with her face preserved.
The latter date refers to the reign of either Amenemhat IV or Sobekneferu. [138] There is one other hieratic text and also a limestone table on which Ahy-seneb Ankh-ren is attested. [136] The other brother, Ahy-seneb Wah (Wꜣḥ), was a wab-priest and 'superintendent of priestly orders of Sepdu, lord of the East'. [133] [139]
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The chronology of the Twelfth Dynasty is the most stable of any period before the New Kingdom.The Turin Royal Canon gives 213 years (1991–1778 BC). Manetho stated that it was based in Thebes, but from contemporary records it is clear that the first king of this dynasty, Amenemhat I, moved its capital to a new city named "Amenemhat-itj-tawy" ("Amenemhat the Seizer of the Two Lands"), more ...
Amenemhat IV may have died without a male heir, which could explain why he was succeeded by Sobekneferu. [2] This is also disputed, as some Egyptologists, such as Aidan Dodson and Kim Ryholt, have proposed that the first two rulers of the Thirteenth Dynasty, Sobekhotep I and Amenemhat Sonbef, might be his sons, based on the filiative nomen ...
Sihathor died shortly before Neferhotep, who probably then appointed another brother, Sobekhotep IV, as coregent. In any case, Sobekhotep IV succeeded Neferhotep I soon afterwards, and reigned over Egypt for almost a decade. The reigns of the two brothers mark the apex of the 13th Dynasty.
The Funerary apron of Neferuptah. An exquisite pectoral of Neferuptah. Neferuptah is one of the first royal women whose name was written inside a cartouche.Although she never had the title 'king's wife', she must have had a special status; it is possible she was regarded as a future ruler.