Editing Merneferre Ay (section)

===Chronological position===
[[File:Globular Jar of King Merneferre Aya MET DP354727.jpg|thumb|upright|Globular jar of Merneferre Ay, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]]]
The relative chronological position of Merneferre Ay as a king of the mid 13th Dynasty is well established by the [[Turin King List|Turin canon]], a king list redacted during the early [[Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt|Ramesside period]] (1292&ndash;1069 BC) and which serves as the primary historical source for the [[Second Intermediate Period]]. The king list records Ay's name on column 8 line 3 (column 6 line 3 in [[Alan Gardiner]]'s reading of the Turin canon and entry 7.3 in von Beckerath's reading) and establishes that Merneferre Ay was preceded by [[Wahibre Ibiau]] and succeeded by [[Merhotepre Ini]], who was possibly his son.<ref name="ryholt"/>

The precise chronological placement of Merneferre Ay varies between scholars, with [[Jürgen von Beckerath]] and Aidan Dodson seeing him as the 27th king of the dynasty<ref>[[Jürgen von Beckerath]]: ''Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen'', Münchner ägyptologische Studien, Heft 49, Mainz : Philip von Zabern, 1999, {{ISBN|3-8053-2591-6}}, see p. 98&ndash;99</ref> while [[Kim Ryholt]] and Darrell Baker place him in the 32nd and 33rd positions, respectively.<ref name="ryholt"/><ref name="encyclo">Darrell D. Baker: ''The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC'', Stacey International, {{ISBN|978-1-905299-37-9}}, 2008, p. 65&ndash;66</ref> Similarly, the absolute datation of Ay's reign is debated and varies by 17 years between Ryholt's 1701–1677 BC<ref name="ryholt"/> and Schneider's 1684–1661 BC.<ref name="schneider"/>