Sheshi [SEP] position held
"The Nubian", whom he believes succeeded Sheshi to the throne as the pharaoh Nehesy Aasehre.
Attestations.
Attestations Nomen and prenomen on seals.
The nomen of Sheshi is inscribed on over two hundred scarab seals, which constitute the sole attestations of his reign. The number of scarabs attributed to Sheshi is paralleled in number only by those bearing the prenomen "Maaibre", meaning ""The righteous one is the heart of Ra"". Based on the close stylistic similarities between both groups of scarabs as well
Art and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo.
Attestations Historical sources.
No historical attestation of Sheshi is known for certain. Sheshi is absent from the Turin canon, a list of kings written on papyrus during the Ramesside period and which serves as the primary historical source for the second intermediate period. This is because the section of the papyrus covering the 13th to 17th Dynasties is heavily damaged and the problem of Sheshi's chronological position cannot be resolved from the document.
It is unclear whether Sheshi is mentioned in the "