Hotepibre Qemau Siharnedjheritef (also Sehetepibre I or Sehetepibre II depending on the scholar) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period.
Family 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.See Ryholt (1997), pp. 73, 208, 214-215 and 284.
Attestations There are several attestations of Hotepibre in Lower Egypt and exchange with the Northern Levant.
Lower Egypt Khatana A seated statue on a throne dedicated to Ptah and bearing the name of Hotepibre was found in Khatana, but its location of origin is unknown.Habachi 1954.
el-Atawla, temple-block
At Per Nemty (el-Atawla), near Asyut (5 km) in the 12th Nome of Upper Egypt, a temple block with his name is now in the Cairo Museum (Temp 25.4.22.3).Habachi 1954.See Ryholt (1997), p. 338, File 13/6.
Tell el-Dab'a, palace Hotepibre is sometimes also credited as the founder of a palace recently rediscovered at Tell El-Dab'a (the ancient Avaris)., pp. 397-398.
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;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. the mace was a gift from Hotepibre to the Eblaite king Immeya who was his contemporary.
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.Baker, Darrell D.: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, , 2008, p. 120-121.Ryholt, K.S.B.; Adam Bülow-Jacobsen. 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. . Alternatively, Jürgen von Beckerath and Detlef Franke see him as the ninth king of the dynasty.Jürgen von Beckerath: Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten, Glückstadt 1964, p. 39–40, 231–32 (XIII 8).Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägyptens, Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 46, Mainz am Rhein (1997).Franke, Delter: Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches. Teil II: Die sogenannte Zweite Zwischenzeit Altägyptens, in Orientalia 57 (1988). Peeters Publishers. .
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