Sobekemsaf II

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Sekhemre Shedtawy Sobekemsaf II was an Egyptian king who reigned during the Second Intermediate Period, when Egypt was fragmented and ruled by multiple kings. He was a king of the Theban 17th dynasty because both he and Sobekemsaf II were the predecessors of Nubkheperre Intef who was certainly a Theban 17th dynasty king. His throne name, Sekhemre Shedtawy, means "Powerful is Re; Rescuer of the Two Lands". It is now believed by Egyptologists such as Kim Ryholt and Daniel Polz that Sobekemsaf II was the father of both Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef and Nubkheperre Intef based on an inscription carved on a doorjamb discovered in the ruins of a 17th Dynasty temple at Gebel Antef in the early 1990s which was built under Nubkheperre Intef. The doorjamb mentions a king Sobekem[saf] as the father of Nubkheperre Intef/Antef VII--(Antef begotten of Sobekem...) He was in all likelihood the Prince Sobekemsaf who is attested as the son and designated successor of king Sobekemsaf I on Cairo Statue CG 386. The British Egyptologist Aidan Dodson also endorses this new interpretation of the doorjamb's text and writes: In the Second Intermediate Period (SIP) there were two kings with the nomen Sobekemsaf: Sekhemre Shedtawy Sobekemsaf and Sekhemre Wadjkhau Sobekemsaf. In addition there is a prenomen Sekhemre Shedwaset, Powerful is Ra, Rescuer of Waset (gr. Thebes), which may be a local variation of Sekhemre Shedtawy. The names imply a time of turmoil where the city and land was in need of rescue.