Neferetkau

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Neferetkau in hieroglyphics
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Neferetkau
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Neferetkau was a princess of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty and a daughter of Pharaoh Sneferu . She had a son named Nefermaat who was vizier . Nothing is known about a Neferetkau husband. Inscriptions in the grave of her son and grandson Snofruchaef have led Kurt Sethe to consider Snefru as the father of Nefermaat Neferetkau's own father. George Andrew Reisner was able to refute this theory through new discoveries.

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Neferetkau most likely owns the mastaba G 7050 in the east cemetery of the Great Pyramid of Cheops . It bears no inscriptions, but the direct structural connection of this mastaba with those of her son (G 7060) and her grandson (G 7070) suggests that it was intended for Neferetkau. The tomb was used for new burials during the Saïtic ( 26th Dynasty ) or Ptolemaic times and is now severely damaged .

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. 501–502 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
  • Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, ISBN 977-424-878-3 , pp. 52-61.
  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, pp. 182-183 ( PDF; 30.5 MB ).
  • George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume 1, Harvard University Press, Harvard 1942, pp. 28, 60, 73, 308, 381, Figure 10 ( PDF; 249.8 MB ).
  • George Andrew Reisner: Nefertkauw, the eldest daughter of Sneferuw. In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity . (ZÄS), Volume 64, 1929 ( PDF; 1.8 MB ).
  • Kurt Sethe : The lack of the concept of incest among the ancient Egyptians. In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity. (ZÄS), Volume 50, 1912, pp. 57-60 ( online ).
  • Kurt Sethe: On the incest of Sneferu. In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity. (ZÄS), Volume 54, 1918, pp. 54-56 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Sethe: The lack of the concept of incest among the ancient Egyptians. In: ZÄS 50 , Leipzig 1912.
  2. ↑ Kurt Sethe: On the incest of Sneferu . In: ZÄS 54 , Leipzig 1918.
  3. ↑ George A. Reisner: Nefertkauw, the eldest daughter of Sneferuw. In: ZÄS 64 , Leipzig 1929.
  4. ↑ George A. Reisner: Nefertkauw, the eldest daughter of Sneferuw. In: ZÄS 64 , Leipzig 1929, p. 98.
personal data
SURNAME Neferetkau
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient egyptian princess
DATE OF BIRTH 27th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.