[3][6] The only contemporaneous attestation of Wepwawetemsaf's reign is a limestone stele "of exceptionally crude quality"[5]: 163  discovered in Abydos and now in the British Museum (EA 969).

2 at Beni Hasan belonging to the 12th Dynasty nomarch Amenemhat and located about 250 km north of Abydos, in Middle Egypt.

[4][5][9] In his study of the Second Intermediate Period, Kim Ryholt elaborates on the idea originally proposed by Detlef Franke that following the collapse of the 13th Dynasty with the conquest of Memphis by the Hyksos, an independent kingdom centered on Abydos arose in Middle Egypt.

[11] The Abydos Dynasty thus designates a group of local kinglets reigning for a short time in central Egypt.

Ryholt notes that Wepwawetemsaf is only attested in central Egypt and that his name comprises the theophoric reference to the Abydene god Wepwawet.