Sewadjkare Hori

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

Attestation of Sewadjkare Hori

Sewadjkare Hori is only known from the Turin canon, row 8, column 7 (Gardiner, von Beckerath: row 7, column 7). The Turin canon provides this king’s prenomen Sewadjkare and the nomen Hori. Jürgen von Beckerath assigns a stone fragment from El-Tod inscribed with the prenomen “Sewadj[…]re”. However, since two other rulers from the Second Intermediate Period bear the same prenomen, this identification remains conjectural.

Identity

Sewadjkare Hori should not be confused with Sewadjkare, a pharaoh of the early 13th Dynasty. There was also another Sewadjkare from the mid-14th Dynasty. Both of these pharaohs enjoyed shorter reigns than Sewadjkare Hori.