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. He reigned over Middle and Upper Egypt for five years, either during the early or mid-17th century, 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 and another Sewadjkare from the mid-14th Dynasty. Both of these pharaohs enjoyed shorter reigns than Sewadjkare Hori.