Sewadjkare Hori

Sewadjkare Hori (also known as Hori II) was a pharaoh of the late 13th Dynasty, possibly the thirty-sixth king of this dynasty.^[2] He reigned over Middle and Upper Egypt for five years, either during the early or mid-17th century, from 1669 until 1664 BC^[1] or from 1648 until 1643 BC.^[3]

Sewadjkare Hori
Hori II, Sewadjkare II
Pharaoh
Reign	5 years, ..., and 8 days[1]
Predecessor	Mersekhemre Ined
Successor	Merkawre Sobekhotep
Royal titulary Praenomen Sewadjkare[2] Swˁḏ-k3-Rˁ He who causes the Ka of Ra to flourish Nomen Hori ...-ḥr-j
Dynasty	13th dynasty

Attestation

Sewadjkare Hori is only known for certain from the Turin canon, row 8, column 7 (Gardiner, von Beckerath: row 7, column 7). The Turin canon provides the prenomen Sewadjkare and the nomen Hori for this king.

Jürgen von Beckerath assigns to him a stone fragment from El-Tod inscribed with the prenomen "Sewadj[...]re". However, since there are two other rulers from the Second Intermediate Period bearing the same prenomen, this identification remains conjectural.^[4]

Identity

Sewadjkare Hori should not be confused with Sewadjkare, a pharaoh of the early 13th Dynasty, and with another Sewadjkare III from the mid 14th Dynasty. Both of these pharaohs enjoyed shorter reigns than Sewadjkare Hori.^[1]