Predecessor Salitis? Successor Khyan? Name Sakir Har | Role King | |
Monuments A doorjamb from Tell el-Dab'a | ||
People also search for Khyan, Apepi, Salitis | ||
The obscure Hyksos king, Sakir-Har, was discovered in an excavated doorjamb from Tell el-Dab'a of Ancient Egypt by Manfred Bietak in the 1990s; the doorjamb, now in Cairo (Cairo TD-8316) bears his partial titulary (Nebti and Golden Falcon names, as well as his nomen). According to Kim Ryholt's 1997 book on the Second Intermediate Period, the doorjamb reads as,
The doorjamb confirms the identity of Sakir-Har as one of the first three kings of the Hyksos Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt. His immediate successor would have been the powerful Hyksos ruler, Khyan, if he was the third Hyksos king of this dynasty, but Sakir-Har's precise position within this dynasty has not yet been established. The name Sakir-Har translates as 'Reward of Har.'
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