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For information on the `Khyan' Group of Kings see F. Lt. Griffith, `Notes' in PSBA, Dec/Jan 1897, p. 293-300.; Names discussed or included are: Maatenra, Nehesi, Taharqa, UazedUazez. Nomes discussed are: Shesha, Yapeqher/Yaqebher, Neby.
1) Scarabs bearing his name were found at Tell el-Farah, in city II at Tell el-Ajjul, in a tomb at Barqai* identical to the assemblage of Megiddo. Interestingly enough the Old Testament Bible states: "And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron: where A-hi'man, She-shai, and Tal'mai, the children of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zo'an in Egypt.)" [Numbers 13:22] See also Joshua 15:13 and Judges 1:20. The name `Sheshai' is reminiscent of the age of `Sheshi' and identical in its consonant form helping us to place the Hyksos into the time after the Exodus.
2) He is not recorded in Canaan.
3) He is known from a scarab found in an MBIIb deposit at Gezer and a sealing found on the surface of Tell es-Sarif.
4) He is not recorded in Canaan.
5) Scarabs of Apophis found at Ajjul in destruction assemblages of the 18th Dynasty. The only reference to a sister to Apophis I was read on a (grey) marble vase. Her name is rendered as `tA-rwDt'. Ryholt, Political History of Egypt', 257 n. 920, reads the name differently as Ziwa.
6) He is not recorded in Canaan.
* Barqai is located in the coastal region ca. 20 km to the south of Megiddo.
[A. Kempinski in The Archaeology of Ancient Israel, 1992, p. 178; See also p. 188: "Three pottery vessels characteristic of MBIIb were found in the tomb of Barqai: 1. A faience flask/juglet, which are known starting from late 12th Dyn times, and which are rarely found in tombs and the form of which is said not to be Egyptian. 2. Peg shaped toggle pins, with a threaded decoration at the top. This type replaces the bulbous-headed type of the MB IIa and is characteristic of the whole of MB IIb. Toggle pins were often used as buttons to hold together layers of clothing.]
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