Sharek
| Sharek | |
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| Shalek | |
| Detail: The genealogy of Ankhefensekhmet (Berlin 23673) is the sole attestation for Sharek
Detail: The genealogy of Ankhefensekhmet (Berlin 23673) is the sole attestation for Sharek
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| Predecessor | unknown |
| Successor | unknown |
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Sharek or Shalek could have been a poorly known ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt.
The Egyptologists Nicolas Grimal and William C. Hayes have proposed that Sharek should be identified with a king named Salitis, given as the founder of the Hyksos 15th Dynasty in Manetho's Aegyptiaca, a history of Egypt written in the 2nd century BC.[1][2] They further propose that Sharek/Salitis is the same person as Sheshi, a ruler during Egypt's second intermediate period mentioned on nearly 400 scarab seals.
Attestation
He is only attested on a non-contemporary document, a genealogy of a priest named Ankhefensekhmet who lived at the end of the 21st Dynasty – thus several centuries after Sharek's supposed reign; perhaps for this reason, Danish Egyptologist Kim Ryholt doubts his existence.[3] On the document, Sharek is placed one generation before the well-known Hyksos pharaoh Apepi of the 15th Dynasty.[1] The genealogy of Ankhefensekhmet is now exhibited at the Neues Museum in Berlin (inv. no. 23673).
References
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