Bakenranef

Bakenrenef (Greek Bokchoris ) was the successor of Tefnachte as 2nd and last ancient Egyptian pharaoh (king) of the 24th dynasty. Manetho describes him even as the founder and sole ruler of the 24th Dynasty. His reign is to be set from about 720-716 BC. Bakenrenef was probably a son of Tefnachte, another is not known to its origin. In addition to his birth name, only his throne name is handed down, the Wah -ka- Re ( With resistant Ka, a Re) is.

Documents

Bakenrenef is mainly witnessed by the Serapeum stelae, the report of the funeral of the deceased towards the end of his reign Apis bull. The vaults of the Serapeum also has an inscription with the entry of the second year of Shabaka, making the transition to the 25th dynasty is also in use in Lower Egypt. One of information, according to Manetho, which is doubtful, was allegedly burned by Shabaka Bakenrenef alive.

Bakenrenef has apparently ruled in Memphis. But he does not do anything against the same reigning ruler of Tanis, Bubastis or Leontopolis and the princes of the Libyans. To what extent was his sovereignty recognized by the other regents and if he tried to continue to expand his territory by means Egypt is unknown. Strange is a vase 1895 found in Tarquinia in Etruria ( a parallel piece comes from Sicily), the Bakenrenef ( Bokchoris ) over the ideological motive of the Cushitic prisoners shows.

Importance

Bakenrenef applies, according to tradition, as legislators or collector of the previous laws (such as in Diodorus next Menes, Sasychis, Sesoosis, Amasis and Darius I ). For the decrees own laws, there is no Egyptian evidence. The Greek poet Pancrates dedicated Bakenrenef a multi-volume work Bokchoreïs. From him only one couplet is obtained. Interestingly, the assumption that the ancient pictorial tradition of the wise judge (about silver cup from Meroe ) could Bakenrenef ( Bokchoris ) represent (K. Brodersen; ?, Or Augustus ).