Sekhemkare

Amenemhat V is attested by a single artefact contemporaneous with his lifetime, a statue of him from Elephantine, originally set up in the Temple of Satet and inscribed with the following dedication:

{{cquote|The good god, lord of the two lands, lord of the ceremonies, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Sekhemkare, the son of Ra Amenemhat, beloved of Satet, lady of Elephantine, may he live for ever.}}

The head and arms of the statue were discovered in the 19th century in the ruins of a temple built to honor a nomarch named Heqaib and are in Kunsthistorisches Museum Inv. 37 in Vienna.[https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/316165/?offset=12&lv=floorplan</ref> Kunsthistorisches Museum Inv. 37] The body of the statue bearing the above inscription was discovered in the year 1932 and is now in the Aswan Museum.

At Lahun, the name "Sekhemkare" is attested from a legal document, dating to year 3, some months and days.{{Cite book |last=Petrie |first=Flinders |title=Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob : (principally of the Middle Kingdom) |publisher=Quaritch |year=1898 |pages=19–22, pl. IX |language=English}}

The Turin King List 7:07 mentions "The Dual King Amenemhat(ra) ... 3 years".https://pharaoh.se/ancient-egypt/kinglist/turin/column-7/ This entry has been linked to Amenemhat V, if Amenemhat V and Amenemhat Senebef are two different rulers. Another possibility is Ameny.

There is a debate between Egyptologists as whether Sekhemkare Amenemhat V is the same king as Sekhemkare Sonbef, whom Kim Ryholt, Jürgen von Beckerath and Darrell Baker see as the 2nd ruler of the 13th Dynasty. Indeed, Sonbef called himself "Amenemhat Sonbef", which Ryholt argues must be understood as "Amenemhat [Sa] Sonbef", The Son of Amenemhat Sonbef, i.e. Sonbef would be the son of Amenemhat IV.

In particular, they see Sonbef and Amenemhat V as two different rulers. Ryholt and Baker further posit that Sonbef's and Amenemhat's rules were separated by the ephemeral reign of Nerikare, while von Beckerath believes it was Sekhemre Khutawy Pantjeny who reigned between the two.Jürgen von Beckerath: Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten, Glückstadt, 1964Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägyptens, Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 46. Mainz am Rhein, 1997 At the opposite Detlef Franke and Stephen Quirke believe that the "Amenemhat" in Sonbef's title is part of his name and identifies him as Amenemhat V, thus seeing the two kings as one and the same person.Detlef Franke: Zur Chronologie des Mittleren Reiches (12.-18. Dynastie) Teil 1 : Die 12. Dynastie, in Orientalia 57 (1988)[http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/chronology/2interkings/kings2intermediate.html New arrangement] of the 13th Dynasty, on digital Egypt. In other terms, Franke and others regard "Amenemhat Sonbef" as a double name. Indeed, double naming was common in Egypt and especially in the late 12th and 13th Dynasty.Stephen Quirke: In the Name of the King: on Late Middle Kingdom Cylinders, in: Timelines, Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak, Leuven, Paris, Dudley, MA. {{ISBN|90-429-1730-X}}, 263-64

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