Column 4.2
The Dual King Hudjefa, 11 years, 8 months, 4 days, his lifetime 34 years ...
nsw-bit ḥw-ḏfꜢ rnpt 11 Ꜣbdw 8 hrw 4 ꜤḥꜤ-f-m-Ꜥnḫ rnpt 34 Ꜣbdw x ...
King | Hudjefa I (16th king) | Dynasty | II (8) |
Gardiner | III 2 | Fragment | 18 (+50?) |
Hudjefa is a pseudonym of an illegible or damaged name.1 2 The upper part of the first ten-sign is missing, it uncertain if the sign was 10, 20, (or less probable 30.)3 The last number is clearly 34 years. A badly damaged Hudjefa also appears in the Saqqara Canon between Neferkasokar and Khasekhemwy. Gardiner's unplaced fr. 50 contain the only remaining patch,4 placing it at the end of column 4 make sense, as a patch is missing between fr. 18 and fr. 59. The rightmost part is the first row of Champollion's fragment Ff.
Other sources
Source | Cartouche | Name | Transcription |
Saqqara Canon 49 |  | ḥw-ḏfꜢ | Hudjefa |
Africanus: II (8) | — | Σεσωχρις | Sesōkhris (48 years) |
Eusebius: II (8) | — | Σεσωχρις | Sesōkhris (48 years) |
1. Goedicke, "King ḥwDf3", JEA 42 (1956): 50–53
2. Helck 1956: 14ff.
3. Gardiner 1959: 15 (III 2 c)
4. Gardiner 1959: 18
Column 4.13
The Dual King ... years
nsw-bit ... rnpt ...
King | Baufra (27th king) | Dynasty | IV (5) |
Gardiner | III 13 | Fragment | 33 + 32 |
The name of the fifth king of the dynasty is lost. It is probable that records from the Old Kingdom were lost over time, resulting in a tradition based on historical facts, but altered for cultic or political reasons. However, as can be seen in many places in the Canon, kings were not supressed for being unpopular or ephemeral, while the cultic records omitted undesirable ancestors.1 The tradition of the pyramid builders overshadowed the ‘lesser’ kings of the dynasty, which over time, were simply lumped together at the end of the dynasty. According to Manetho, the sixth and eight kings were Bikheres,2 and Thamphthis, both otherwise completely unknown and unattested.
Other sources
Source | Cartouche | Name | Transcription |
Africanus: IV (6) | — | Bιχερης | Bikherēs (22 years) |
Eratosthenes: 14 | — | Βιυρης | Biurēs (10 years) |
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