Qemau Siharnedjheritef complete nomen means "Qemau's son, Horus he who seizes his power" and from this it is likely that he was the son of his predecessor
Ameny Qemau and the grandson of king
Amenemhat V. Ryholt further proposes that he was succeeded by a king named
Iufni, who may have been his brother or uncle. After the short reign of Iufni, the throne went to another grandson of Amenemhat V named
Ameny Antef Amenemhat VI.[4]
Attestations
There are several attestations of Hotepibre in Lower Egypt and exchange with the Northern Levant.
Lower Egypt
Khatana
A statue dedicated to
Ptah and bearing the name of Hotepibre was found in
Khatana, but its location of origin is unknown.
Hotepibre is sometimes also credited as the founder of a palace recently rediscovered at
Tell El-Dab'a (the ancient
Avaris).[6]
Levant
Ebla (Inner Syria), ceremonial mace
This pharaoh is also known by a
ceremonial mace found inside the so-called "Tomb of the Lord of the Goats" in
Ebla, in modern northern
Syria;[7] the mace was a gift from Hotepibre to the Eblaite king
Immeya who was his contemporary.[8]
Speculations
According to egyptologists
Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker, he was the sixth king of the dynasty, reigning for one to five years, possibly three years, from 1791 BC until 1788 BC.[1][2] Alternatively,
Jürgen von Beckerath and
Detlef Franke see him as the ninth king of the dynasty.[9][10][11]
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abDarrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International,
ISBN978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 120-121
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abK.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
^Labib Habachi: Khatâ'na-Qantîr: Importance in Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, Nr. 52 (1952), p. 460
^Matthiae, Paolo (1997). "Ebla and Syria in the Middle Bronze Age". In Oren, Eliezer D. (ed.). The Hyksos: new historical and archaeological perspectives. The University of Philadelphia, The University Museum.
ISBN0924171464., pp. 397-398.
^Ryholt, K. "Hotepibre - A Supposed Asiatic King in Egypt with Relations to Ebla", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 311, 1998, pp. 1–6.