Neferkare (King)

Neferkare
	Cartouche No. 19 in the list of kings of Abydos with the name "Neferkare" (detail)

Neferkare is the maiden name of an ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) who presumably ruled in the 3rd dynasty . The assignment of the name is controversial in Egyptology and is therefore controversial.

Jürgen von Beckerath and Rainer Hannig equate Neferkare with the Greek name Mesochris or Nebkare, which has been handed down from Manetho (Africanus) and, like Thomas Schneider, see him as the successor to Hudjefa II and Sedjes as well as the predecessor of Huni . But since Mesochris is just another form of the name of Mykerinos, as was shown last, the identification of Neferkare with Mesochris must be deleted. According to a new investigation, Neferkare could be identical to the king known by his Horus name, Chaba.

There is no contemporary evidence for a king named Neferkare. In the list of kings of Abydos , Neferkare is listed as the successor to Sedjes.

literature

Jürgen von Beckerath: Handbook of the ancient Egyptian king names . von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2591-6 , pp. 51-52.
Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800 - 950 BC) von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 1284.
Stephan J. Seidlmayer: The Relative Chronology of Dynasty 3. In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (Eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83 ). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-11385-5 , pp. 116-123 ( online ).
Thomas Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs . Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , pp. 163, 174 and 315.
Nabil Swelim: Some Problems on the History of the Third Dynasty . Archeology Society, Alexandria 1983, pp. 217-220 and 224.
Christoffer Theis, Remarks on Manetho and the Manethonian Tradition 1: The Third Dynasty, in: Welt des Orients 44 (2014), pp. 109–125.
Christoffer Theis, Among the names found on the Lepsius XIII pyramid. The question about Nfr-k3 and B3-k3, in: Studies on Ancient Egyptian Culture 43 (2014), pp. 426–438.

Individual evidence

↑ The proper name, as it is introduced from the 4th dynasty with "Sa Ra", does not yet exist at this time, which is why the transfer to proper name (Pharaoh) is basically problematic. The formulation proper name is based on Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbuch der Ägyptischen Könignames .
↑ ^a ^b Thomas Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs . P. 163.
↑ Christoffer Theis, Remarks on Manetho and the Manethonian Tradition 1: The Third Dynasty, in: Welt des Orients 44 (2014), pp. 109–125, here p. 121.
↑ Christoffer Theis, On the names found on the pyramid Lepsius XIII. The question about Nfr-k3 and B3-k3, in: Studies on Ancient Egyptian Culture 43 (2014), pp. 426–438.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hudjefa II.	King of Egypt 3rd Dynasty	Huni

personal data
SURNAME	Neferkare
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nebcars, Mesochris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Egyptian king of the 3rd dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	27th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	27th century BC Chr.

[1] The proper name, as it is introduced from the 4th dynasty with "Sa Ra", does not yet exist at this time, which is why the transfer to proper name (Pharaoh) is basically problematic. The formulation proper name is based on Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbuch der Ägyptischen Könignames .

[S163-2] Thomas Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs . P. 163.

[3] Christoffer Theis, Remarks on Manetho and the Manethonian Tradition 1: The Third Dynasty, in: Welt des Orients 44 (2014), pp. 109–125, here p. 121.

[4] Christoffer Theis, On the names found on the pyramid Lepsius XIII. The question about Nfr-k3 and B3-k3, in: Studies on Ancient Egyptian Culture 43 (2014), pp. 426–438.