Chaefchufu

Chaefchufu in hieroglyphics
Chaefchufu (Chaj ef Chufu) Ḫʿj f Ḫwfw Cheops shines

Chaefchufu (also read Chufuchaef , actually Cha-ef-Chufu ) is the name of an ancient Egyptian prince who was the son of King ( Pharaoh ) Cheops in the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom . His mother was Queen Henutsen . Some Egyptologists suspect that he was not identical to King Chephren : he might have changed his name from "Cha-ef-Chufu" to "Cha-ef-Re" after he ascended the throne . However, this theory is controversial. Chaefchufu carried among other things the title "Head of the Western Desert" ( Imi-ra-semat-imentet ).

Chaefchufu was buried in the double mastaba G 7130-7140 in the pyramid necropolis of Cheops in Giza . While grave G 7130 belonged to his wife Neferet-kau , he owned grave G 7140 himself.

literature

• Michel Baud : Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2 (= Bibliothèque d'Étude. Volume 126/2). Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 1999, ISBN 2-7247-0250-6 , pp. 539-540 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
• Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . Thames & Hudson, London / New York 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , p. 57.
• Michael Haase : A place for eternity. The pyramid complex of Cheops from a structural, architectural and cultural-historical point of view . von Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-8053-3105-3 .
• Ingelore Hafemann: Service obligation in ancient Egypt . Golden House Publications, Berlin / London 2009, ISBN 978-1-906137-11-3 , p. 56.
• Zahi Hawass : The Programs of the Royal Funerary Complexes of the Fourth Dynasty. In: David O'Connor, David P. Silverman: Ancient Egyptian Kingship. Brill, Leiden 1995, ISBN 9004100415 .
• Hermann Ranke : The Egyptian personal names . Volume 1, Augustin, Glückstadt 1935, ( online as PDF ).
• Rainer Stadelmann : The Egyptian pyramids. From brick construction to the wonder of the world (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 30). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-8053-1142-7 .
• Joyce Tyldesley : Chronicle of the queens of Egypt: from early dynastic times to the death of Cleopatra . Thames & Hudson, London 2006, ISBN 0500051453 , pp. 45 & 46ff.
• Wolfhart Westendorf : Painting, sculpture, and architecture of ancient Egypt . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1969.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Ranke: The Egyptian personal names . Vol. 1, p. 265, No. 17.
2. ^ Wolfhart Westendorf: Painting, sculpture, and architecture of ancient Egypt . P. 49.