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==Attestations==
The only contemporaneous attestation of Wepwawetemsaf's reign is a [[limestone]] [[stele]] "of exceptionally crude quality"<ref name="ryholt"/>{{rp|163}} discovered in [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]] and now in the [[British Museum]] (EA 969).<ref>Janine Bourriau: ''Pharaohs and Mortals: Egyptian art in the Middle Kingdom'', Cambridge University Press, 1988, see p. 72-73, fig. 58</ref><ref>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=387925&objectid=121139 Stele of Wepwawetemsaf]</ref> The stele shows the king before the god "''[[Wepwawet]], lord of Abydos''" and is generally described as of poor workmanship.<ref name="encyclo"/> The stele was produced by a workshop operating in Abydos. Other steles produced by this workshop belong to king [[Rahotep]] and king [[Pantjeny]]. The Egyptologist Marcel Marée therefore concludes that these three kings reigned quite close in time. He believes that the stele of Pantjeny was made by a different artist, while the steles of Rahotep and Wepwawetemsaf were carved by the same man. He argues that Wepwawetemsaf reigned directly after king Rahotep. He does not assign single kings to specific dynasties, but comes to the conclusion that these kings belong to the late 16th or very early 17th Dynasty.<ref name="maree">Marcel Marée: ''A sculpture workshop at Abydos from the late Sixteenth or early Seventeenth Dynasty'', in: Marcel Marée (editor): ''The Second Intermediate period (Thirteenth-Seventeenth Dynasties, Current Research, Future Prospects'', Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA. 2010 {{ISBN|978-90-429-2228-0}}. p. 245, 261-275</ref>
 
Another possible attestation of this king is a [[graffito (archaeology)|graffito]] discovered in tomb no. 2 at [[Beni Hasan]] belonging to the [[12th Dynasty]] [[nomarch]] [[Amenemhat (BH2)|Amenemhat]] and located about 250&nbsp;km north of Abydos, in [[Middle Egypt]]. The graffito has been tentatively read by Beckerath as "Sekhemreneferkhau" but this remains uncertain as the original is now lost.<ref name="encyclo"/><ref name="ryholt"/><ref>[[Jürgen von Beckerath]]: ''Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der Zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten'', Glückstadt, 1964</ref>