Qareh

Attestations Qareh Khawoserre is attested by thirty royal seals inscribed with his name, only one of which has a known provenance: Jericho in Palestine. His nomen Qareh is attested by 8 seals and his prenomen Khawoserre is attested by 22 seals.

Qareh's name is inscribed in Egyptian hieroglyphs (k-3-r-h); however, it is not Egyptian, but rather West Semitic. Krh is a common West Semitic name meaning "the bald one".

Identification The Egyptologist Kim Ryholt equates Qareh with the prenomen Khawoserre, which is also only attested through scarab seals. Qareh's chronological position is uncertain, with Ryholt and Darrell Baker placing him as the third king of the 14th Dynasty based on the style of his seals. On the other hand, Thomas Schneider and Jürgen von Beckerath see him as a ruler of the 16th Dynasty. Alternatively, James Peter Allen proposes that he was an Hyksos ruler of the early 15th Dynasty