Muthis [SEP] position held
Muthis
Muthis may have been an ephemeral ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Twenty-ninth dynasty.
Biography.
He is sometime reported as a son of Nepherites I who ruled for a brief time before being deposed by an usurper, Psammuthes. However, this statement is based on an interpretation of a passage in the "Demotic Chronicle":
«His son (i.e. of Nepherites I) was allowed to succeed him. (But) a short time was vouchsafed to him...» Nevertheless, the "Demotic Chronicle
" never mentions the name of Muthis and, as pointed out by the Egyptologist John D. Ray, "his son" could be a reference to Hakor instead.
It is also possible that Muthis was a very shadowly usurper, maybe related to the other usurper Psammuthes. Another option is that "Muthis" was simply a copying error, and therefore never existed; the latter hypothesis is supported by the fact that the name is clearly hellenized but there are no clues of what could have originally meant "Muthis" in Egyptian