Sewadjare Mentuhotep

Sewadjare Mentuhotep
Sewadjare Mentuhotep
Sewedjare Mentuhotep V
	Photography of a relief showing the cartouches of Sewadjare Mentuhotep from the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahri.
Pharaoh
Reign	very short reign, some time between 1662 BC and 1649 BC, most probably 1655 BC
Predecessor	unknown
Successor	unknown
Prenomen (Praenomen)
Prenomen (Praenomen)
	Sewadjare; Swḏˁ-Rˁ
Nomen
	Mentuhotep; Mn-ṯw-ḥtp; Montu is content
	;
Consort	Sitmut (?)
Children	Herunefer (?)
Dynasty	13th Dynasty

Sewadjare Mentuhotep (also known as Mentuhotep V or Mentuhotep VI depending on the scholar) is a poorly attested Egyptian pharaoh of the late 13th Dynasty, who reigned for a short time c. 1655 BC during the Second Intermediate Period.^[2] The Egyptologists Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker respectively believe that he was the fiftieth and forty-ninth king of the dynasty, thereby making him Mentuhotep V.^[2]^[3] Thus, Sewadjare Mentuhotep most likely reigned shortly before the arrival of Hyksos over the Memphite region and concurrently with the last rulers of the 14th Dynasty.

^ Édouard Naville: The XI Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahri, Part I, 1907, available copyright-free online, see p. 68 and pl. XII [i]
^ ^a ^b ^c K.S.B. Ryholt, 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, excerpts available online here.
^ Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 231-232

[naville-1] Édouard Naville: The XI Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahri, Part I, 1907, available copyright-free online, see p. 68 and pl. XII [i]

[ryholt-2] K.S.B. Ryholt, 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, excerpts available online here.

[encyclo-3] Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 231-232

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