Dynasty 13 (the many short-reigned kings; Sobekhotep, Neferhotep, Khendjer and others)
1773 BCE–1650 BCE · Middle-Kingdom
A summary entry for the long series of mostly short-reigned kings of Dynasty 13, more than fifty in number, who ruled from Itj-tawy and Memphis as central authority fragmented into the Second Intermediate Period. They are known largely from the damaged Turin Canon, seals, and scattered monuments, so their order, reign-lengths, and even total count are largely irrecoverable. A few, notably Neferhotep I and his brother Sobekhotep IV, reigned long enough to leave substantial monuments.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Dynasty 13 (the many short-reigned kings; Sobekhotep, Neferhotep, Khendjer and others)’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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