Khui
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| Khui | ||||||||||||||||
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 Relief fragment with the cartouche of Khui from a mastaba in Dara[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| Reign | c. 2150 BC | |||||||||||||||
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| Burial | Possibly Pyramid of Khui | |||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | Possibly 8th Dynasty or a local kinglet | |||||||||||||||
Khui (fl. c. 2150 BC) was an ancient Egyptian king and/or nomarch during the early First Intermediate Period. Khui may have belonged to the Eighth Dynasty of Egypt, as Jürgen Beckerath has proposed,[2] or he may instead have been a provincial nomarch who proclaimed himself king.
Khui is not known from historical sources and the only certain attestation of his existence is a fragmentary relief on a stone block showing his cartouche which was published in 1912 by the Egyptologist Ahmed Bey Kamal and later republished by Raymond Weill. The block was excavated from a mastaba tomb of the necropolis of Dara near Manfalut.[1] This necropolis is dominated by a massive funerary structure which was hastily attributed to this obscure king (the so-called Pyramid of Khui), assuming that the block came from its almost disappeared mortuary temple.[3][4]
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