Sharek

Sharek or Shalek could have been a poorly known ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt.

Relief with the name of king Sharek

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

  1. 1 2 Hayes, William C. (1973). "Egypt: from the death of Ammenemes III to Seqenenre II". In Edwards, I.E.S. The Cambridge Ancient History (3rd ed.), vol. II, part 1. Cambridge University Press. pp. 42–76. ISBN 0-521-08230-7., p. 59
  2. ↑ Grimal, Nicolas (1992). A History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Blackwell Books. ISBN 978-0-631-17472-1., p. 185
  3. ↑ Ryholt, K.S.B. (1997). The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800–1550 BC. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press: Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20., p. 402


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