General Notes

Pharoah of Thebes in Egypt (XVII Dynasty)

Tao II is a well known king from the late 17th dynasty. His throne name right, Seqen-en-re, [He] Who Strikes Like Re" is well found as he was a warrior king who started a rebellion against the Hyksos in Avaris. Maybe he was provoked by a letter from their old king Apepi I who complained that his sleep was disturbed by the snoring from king Tao's hippopotami down in Thebes 800 km to the south(!).
His military campaign hardly became a success and he obviously died during the very first year(s). His mummy was found at Thebes and shows that he got a violent dead in some way. King Tao's about four years in office are rather well known and positioned in time around the years 1558-1554 BC.
The military struggle was continued by his son who became the next pharaoh.
Remnants from his own life time are about a dozen and the best known are his sarcophagus from Thebes and a statue of him, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. From after his death his name has been found on stelae and literary remains all telling about his deeds in the Hyksos war.