Neferirkare II

Name of Neferirkare II.
List of Kings of Abydos (Seti I) (No.56)	Nefer-iri-ka-Re Nfr-jrj-k3-Rˁ With a beautiful figure (eye) and Ka des Re

Neferirkare (actually Nefer-iri-ka-Re , also Neferir-ka-Re or Neferirkare II. ) Was an ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the 8th Dynasty ( First Intermediate Period ).

Domination

The name of the king appears in the list of kings in the Temple of Seti I in Abydos , (No. 56), throne name .

After Hayes and Gomaa he is the king of the Koptos decree , which is addressed to the son of Schemai and vizier Idi, see also Neferkauhor Chuiuihapi .

Also Wadjkare is probably in the 8th Dynasty, as well as a king with the throne name Sechemkare or Anchkare. The following proper names have also appeared on finds , which could be the birth names of other kings of the 8th dynasty:

Iti , Imhotep , Hetep , Chabau, Chui , Isu and Iytenu .

However, an inscription published in 2014 suggests that his proper name was Pepy. The king is probably mentioned in the biography of Idi (his name has not been preserved, but the inscription can be assigned to him) in the tomb of Schemai near Coptus . In the dating of the inscription, the name of a king appears at the beginning. The two cartouches of the ruler's title have been destroyed in the upper part. Pepy Neferka- [destroyed] -re can still be read . For chronological reasons, it is probably not Pepi II , who bears the throne name Neferkare. The ka symbol in the cartridge is relatively small. Maha Farid Mostafa reconstructs an ir symbol above it and reconstructs the whole name as Neferirkare. Furthermore, Neferirkare is likely to be identical with King Djemed-ib-taui (it is a name of Horus). The latter name is found in a Koptos decree, on which Idi is also mentioned.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maha Farid Mostafa: The Mastaba of SmAj at Naga 'Kom el-Koffar, Qift , Vol. I, Cairo 2014, ISBN 978-977642004-5 , pp. 157-161

literature

General

• Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC). Bannerstone Press, Oakville 2008, ISBN 978-0977409440 , pp. 260-261.
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 174.

About the name

• Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbook of the Egyptian king names. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00832-2 , pp. 59, 188.

Questions of detail

• Hans Goedicke : Royal documents from the Old Kingdom. 1967, p. 215.
• Farouk Gomaà: Egypt during the First Intermediate Period (= supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East. Series B: Geisteswissenschaften. Vol. 27). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-88226-041-6 , p. 59.
• Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronology of the pharaonic Egypt. von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-2310-7 , pp. 148-149.
• Hratch Papazian : The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty. In: Peter Der Manuelian , Thomas Schneider (Eds.): Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Perspectives on the Pyramid Age (= Harvard Egyptological Studies. Volume 1). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-30188-7 , pp. 393-428.

predecessor	Office	successor
Neferkauhor Chuiuihapi	Pharaoh of Egypt 8th Dynasty	Wadjkare