Post by Malcolm on Jul 18, 2013 1:04:09 GMT -5
I'll let the web pages with historical facts about this king speak for themselves.
First from - www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/6egypt/index.htm
"King Khyan's throne name (within the car- touche in the picture right) means - " Powerful Like Re", a self confident name.
His influence reached beyond the kingdom in Northern Egypt and his name is known from a wide area in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. Greek name forms were: Yannas, Jannis, Iannes, Joannis etc. His reign: 25 years around 1625-1601 BC.
Manetho ascribes him a 50 year period. His name (in his own Hyksos language) means "Born in (the month of) Khiyar" and other forms are: Khiyaran, Khajran, Khayan. "
His name with the title "Ruler over the foreign lands" has been found on at least 38 seals from scarabs plus pieces of artefacts from remote places like Knossos in Crete, Bagdad in the great flood plain of Mesopotamia and Bogazkoy (capital of the Hittite people) in the mountains of Anatolia up north in today's Turkey.
Also - www.phouka.com/pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn15/04khyan.html
"He was considered one of the Great Hyksos kings, and his power extended beyond the Delta kingdom that was controlled by the Hyksos. His name has been found as far away as the Mediterranean shore and Crete.
As always, Manetho give him a long reign of 50 years, which is double what the normal modern estimate is. It is normally assumed that he ruled about 25 years,which is still a tremendous reign for the kings in this period, who often ruled only a small part of Egypt for a very small portion of time.
His name is well known outside of Egypt, with seals and other artifacts from as far away as Knossos in Crete and Bogaskoy (the capitol of the Hittite kingdom) and in the northern mountains of modern Turkey.
Normally, his name is found with the title "Ruler of Foreign Lands". "
Manetho was the Greek-Egyptian historian so it is only natural that he would give the Greek version of this King's Name. Take your pick:
Yannas, Jannis, Iannes, Joannis etc
For those who cannot read Greek, Yannis or Yanni is Greek for JOHN.
What is just as important is that it is quite possible that Yanni was ANI the Egyptian law maker.
We can easily see how the Egyptian form KHYAN (aspirated 'KH') was heard by the Greeks as YAN and so Hellenised into YANNI.
The name is also the same as the Hebrew QYN - which we know as CAIN
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