 If he was a king of the 16th Dynasty, Sobekhotep VIII would be credited 16 years of reign by the Turin canon, starting c. 1650 BC, at the time of the Hyksos invasion of Egypt.The 2nd line of the 11th column of the Turin canon reads "Sekhem[...]re" and refers, according to Egyptologists Kim Ryholt and Darrell Baker, to Sekhemre Seusertawy, which is Sobekhotep VIII's nomen.If this identification is correct, then Sobekhotep VIII reigned for 16 years as the third king of the 16th Dynasty.