Bakenranef

Bakenranef
Bakenranef
Bocchoris
	Apis stela dated to Year 6 of Bakenranef's reign, found in Saqqara.
Pharaoh
Reign	725-720 BC
Predecessor	Tefnakht
Successor	None (Egypt united under Shebitqo, Upper Kingdom Pharaoh)
Prenomen (Praenomen)
Prenomen (Praenomen)
	Wahkare; Constant is the Heart of Re
Nomen
	Bakenranef; Servant in his name
	;
Dynasty	24th Dynasty (Western Delta)

Bakenranef, known by the ancient Greeks as Bocchoris (Ancient Greek: Βόκχωρις, Bókkhōris;^[1] Latin: Bocchoris) or Bochchoris (Βόχχωρις, Bókhkhōris; Latin: Bochchoris) was briefly a king of the 24th Dynasty of Egypt. Based at Sais in the western Delta, he ruled Lower Egypt from c. 725 to 720 BC. Though the Ptolemaic period Egyptian historian Manetho^[2] considers him the sole member of the 24th Dynasty, modern scholars include his father Tefnakht in that dynasty. Although Sextus Julius Africanus quotes Manetho as stating that "Bocchoris" ruled for six years, some modern scholars again differ and assign him a shorter reign of only five years, based on evidence from an Apis Bull burial stela. It establishes that Bakenranef's reign ended only at the start of his 6th regnal year which, under the Egyptian dating system, means he had a reign of 5 full years. Bakenranef's prenomen or royal name, Wahkare, means "Constant is the Spirit of Re" in Egyptian.^[3]

^ Bakenranef's name is consistently Bocchoris in the Greek accounts and in Tacitus; the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics has permitted the reconstruction of his authentic Egyptian name.
^ Manetho, frags. 64, 65; translation in W.G. Waddell, Manetho (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1997), p. 165
^ Clayton, Peter A. (1994). Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 188. ISBN 978-0500050743.

[1] Bakenranef's name is consistently Bocchoris in the Greek accounts and in Tacitus; the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics has permitted the reconstruction of his authentic Egyptian name.

[2] Manetho, frags. 64, 65; translation in W.G. Waddell, Manetho (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1997), p. 165

[3] Clayton, Peter A. (1994). Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 188. ISBN 978-0500050743.

[1]

[2]

[3]