Nuya
Egyptian pharaoh of the 14th dynasty
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Nuya was a ruler of some part of Lower Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, possibly during the 17th century BC. Nuya is attested by a single scarab seal of unknown provenance.[1] Based on a seriation of the seals of the Second Intermediate Period, the Danish Egyptologist Kim Ryholt has proposed that Nuya was a king of the 14th Dynasty, reigning after Nehesy and before Yaqub-Har.[2][3] As such, he would have ruled in the 17th century BC from Avaris over the eastern Nile Delta and possibly over the Western Delta as well.
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Scarab seal of Nuya | ||||||||||||
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| Reign | unknown duration | |||||||||||
| Predecessor | unknown | |||||||||||
| Successor | unknown | |||||||||||
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| Dynasty | uncertain, possibly 14th dynasty | |||||||||||
Alternatively, the Egyptologists Erik Hornung and Elisabeth Staehelin read the inscription on the scarab attributed to Nuya as Khyan, the name of a powerful Hyksos king of the 15th Dynasty c. 1610–1580 BC.[1] This reading is emphatically rejected by the Egyptologist Darrell Baker however, who remains cautious about Nuya's identity.[3]