Nefer (acquaintance of the king)

Nefer in hieroglyphics
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Nefer is referred to on her sacrificial plate as "the king's acquaintance". Nothing more can be determined about them.

dig

The simple, undecorated mastaba G 1207 in the west cemetery of the necropolis of Giza comes from the ( 4th dynasty ) from the later period of King Cheops and is partially blocked by the direct attachment of mastaba G 1206. The grave field of G 1200 originally comprised ten Tombs. Five of them belonged to male grave owners, three to women. Perhaps they were wives of royal officials. In any case, they must have held an important position in the royal court. In the burial chapel of the Nefer GA Reisner found a sacrificial slab that is now in Berkeley : Hearst Museum für Anthrolpologie 6 - 1980. The finely crafted sacrificial slab is of high quality and resembles the sacrificial slab of Princess Neferetiabet from the mastaba G 1225. From the original painting only faint paint residues remain. Both sacrificial plates probably come from the same royal workshop.

literature

Peter Der Manuelian : Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania ‐ Yale Expedition to Egypt, no.7 , The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, New Haven and Philadelphia 2003, p. 50 ff. (Figure and description also in: Egyptian Art in The Age of The Pyramids , The Metropolitan Museum of Art , 1999, pp. 246–248) ( PDF; 56.7 MB ).
Henry Frederick Lutz: Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California , University of California Publications. Egyptian Archeology 4, Leipzig 1927, pp. 1, 12. ( Online, PDF; 56.3 MB )
Bertha Porter and Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, III: Memphis , second edition, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1974, p. 58 ( PDF; 30.5 MB ).
George Andrew Reisner and Clarence Fisher: Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition 1911-13 , in: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 13 (1914), pp. 227-252, pl. 1904 ( PDF; 4.5 MB ).

Individual evidence

↑ George Andrew Reisner and Clarence Fisher: Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition 1911-13 (see literature)
↑ HF Lutz: Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California (see literature).

personal data
SURNAME	Nefer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Egyptian acquaintances of the king
DATE OF BIRTH	between 27th century BC BC and 25th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	between 27th century BC BC and 24th century BC Chr.

[1] George Andrew Reisner and Clarence Fisher: Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition 1911-13 (see literature)

[2] HF Lutz: Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California (see literature).