TY - JOUR

T1 - The Sixth Heracleopolitan King Merikare Khety

AU - Demidchik, Arkadiy

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - The history of the Heracleopolitan royal "House of Khety," comprising Manethonian Dynasties ix and x, remains unknown to us. The only monarch whose place in the Heracleopolitans' succession is believed to be well established is Merikare, the addressee of the famous treatise on kingship. For almost eight decades he has been alleged to be the final or penultimate Heracleopolitan ruler. However, even this hardened opinion rests on erroneous presumptions. Close scrutiny of all pertaining records permits rather to identify Merikare with the sixth Heracleopolitan pharaoh, listed in the Turin King-list, v. 24, with the nomen "Khety." Merikare's father, the fifth king of Heracleopolis, managed to restore the capital back to Memphis. Therefore, later he was at times considered as founder of a new, Dynasty "x", with his four "purely Heracleopolitan" predecessors forming "Dynasty ix." Such is an explanation for Manetho's much debated division of the Heracleopolitans into two dynasties.

AB - The history of the Heracleopolitan royal "House of Khety," comprising Manethonian Dynasties ix and x, remains unknown to us. The only monarch whose place in the Heracleopolitans' succession is believed to be well established is Merikare, the addressee of the famous treatise on kingship. For almost eight decades he has been alleged to be the final or penultimate Heracleopolitan ruler. However, even this hardened opinion rests on erroneous presumptions. Close scrutiny of all pertaining records permits rather to identify Merikare with the sixth Heracleopolitan pharaoh, listed in the Turin King-list, v. 24, with the nomen "Khety." Merikare's father, the fifth king of Heracleopolis, managed to restore the capital back to Memphis. Therefore, later he was at times considered as founder of a new, Dynasty "x", with his four "purely Heracleopolitan" predecessors forming "Dynasty ix." Such is an explanation for Manetho's much debated division of the Heracleopolitans into two dynasties.

KW - Dynasties ix and x

KW - First Intermediate Period

KW - Heracleopolitans

KW - Merikare

KW - Turin King-list

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84992598366&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1163/18741665-12340028

DO - 10.1163/18741665-12340028

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:84992598366

VL - 9

SP - 97

EP - 120

JO - Journal of Egyptian History

JF - Journal of Egyptian History

SN - 1874-1657

IS - 2

ER -