Khaba in Wikipedia
Khaba was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom and is
generally considered to have reigned near the end of the
Third Dynasty. He was successor to Sekhemkhet, and he was
probably a son of Sekhemkhet and his wife, Djeseretnebti.
Khaba is believed to have reigned a relatively brief four
years between 2640 to 2637 BC[1], although these dates are
highly conjectural, based on what scant evidence exists of
this early king.
Khaba is commonly associated with the Layer Pyramid, located
at Zawyet el'Aryan, about 2 km south of Giza. It is an
unfinished pyramid whose construction is typical of Third
Dynasty masonry and would have originally risen about 42-45m
in height (it is now about 20m). While there were no
inscriptions directly relating the pyramid to this king, he
is attested in four or perhaps five sites and eight
alabaster bowls inscribed with the king's serekh were
discovered nearby in Mastaba Z-500 located just north of the
pyramid.[2]
This king is mentioned in the Turin King List as "erased",
which may imply that there were dynastic problems during his
reign, or that the scribe working on this list was unable to
fully decipher the name from the more ancient records being
copied. It has also been suggested that Khaba may be the
Horus name of the last king of the Third Dynasty, Huni, and
that the two kings are the same person.
Khaba's name, typically displayed within a serekh rather
than the more typical cartouche form established by the end
of this dynasty, was written using the sign of a rising sun
that had the sound value of kha, and a Saddle-billed Stork
that had the sound value of ba. His name translates as "The
Soul Appears."[3]
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