Apophis Ier
See also: Apophis (homonymy)
Apophis 1st or Apopi 1st is a Egyptian Pharaon of. It is the least badly known Pharaons Hyksôs. During its long reign of more than thirty years, it acts as Pharaon: building in the temples, making copy works of last (like the Papyrus Rhind).
Titulature
First part of reign
Second part of reign
Third part of reign
Reign
An Egyptian tale of, which reached us unfortunately in a very fragmentary way, brings back an exchange curious between Apophis, sovereign hyksôs of Egypt reigning since Avaris in the delta (), and the lord of Thèbes, Séqénenrê Taâ II. Apophis requires of Séqenenrê to drive out the hippopotamuses of its pond, because their noises inconvenience the Pharaon and prevent it from sleeping the night. Considering the distance between Thèbes and Avaris, this message can have only one hidden direction, or symbolic system. It would probably be a question for the sovereign of north of affirming his sovereignty on its vassal south.
That a messenger goes towards the chief of the city of the South to say to him: King Râ-Apôpi, v.s.f, send you to say: That one drives out on the pond the hippopotamuses which are in the channels of the country, so that they let come to me the sleep, the night and the day…
The probable conclusion of this history, according to Gaston Maspero, is the following one: king Séqénenrê, after having hesitated lengthily, succeeds in drawing from the embarrassing dilemma where its powerful rival claimed to lock up it. Its answer, to be itself made wait, was to be less odd than the message of Apophis, but nothing makes it possible to conjecture what it was.
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