Yakareb may have been a ruler of some part of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, possibly during the 17th century BC, and likely belonging to the Fourteenth Dynasty. He would have ruled from Avaris over the eastern Nile Delta and perhaps the Western Delta. His chronological position and identity are unclear.
Attestations
Yakareb is one of the few attested kings of the 14th Dynasty, with two scarab seals attributable to him, both of unknown provenance. One of the two scarabs is currently housed in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, catalogue number 293/73, while the other is in the Petrie Museum, under catalogue number 11810.
The Turin canon is a king list redacted in the early Ramesside period, which serves as the primary historical source for the 14th Dynasty but records only the kings’ prenomen. Since “Yakareb” is this king’s nomen, it is not possible to assert whether or not Yakareb is listed in the Turin canon. Moreover, the document is fragmentary, and Yakareb’s prenomen may be lost in a lacuna. Thus, Yakareb is attested for sure by only the two scarabs, both of which are crudely made, and it is possible that “Yakareb” is a garbled or variant form of the name of a better-known king of this period.
Chronological position
Although the chronological position of Yakareb is uncertain, the Egyptologists Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker proposed that he ruled in the 14th Dynasty, sometime before Yaqub-Har. This estimation is based on a seriation of the scarabs dating to the Second Intermediate Period.