Apepi (Apophis)
1580 BCE–1540 BCE · Second-Intermediate
Apepi (also rendered Apophis; throne-name Aauserre) was the greatest and longest-reigning of the Hyksos kings of Dynasty 15, ruling the Delta from Avaris. He was the principal antagonist of the Theban war of liberation, and his quarrel with the Theban king Seqenenre Tao is dramatised in a later literary text, 'The Quarrel of Apepi and Seqenenre'. A real foreign king restored here against the native lists' deliberate erasure. He should not be confused with the chaos-serpent god of the same name; they are entirely distinct.
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