Nefertkau I

See also "Nefertkau II" and "Nefertkau III".
colspan="2" valign="top" style="background:;" | Nefertkau in hieroglyphs

Nefertkau
Nfr.t kau
Nefertkau I
Resting place mastaba 7050, Giza
Title Princess of Egypt
Spouse maybe Khufu
Children Prince Nefermaat II
Parents Sneferu and unknown woman
Relatives Sneferukhaf (grandson)
two great-grandsons

Nefertkau I was a 4th dynasty Princess of Egypt. She was the eldest daughter of King Sneferu and the mother of vizier Nefermaat II.

Family

Nefertkau was a daughter of pharaoh Sneferu and hence a half-sister to king Khufu. She was the mother of Nefermaat II, and the grand-mother of Sneferukhaf.[1]

Nefertkau is explicitly said to be a daughter of Sneferu in inscriptions from the tomb of her son Nefermaat I and her grandson Sneferukhaf. Sethe argued from the inscription in Nefermaat's tomb that Nefertkau had married her own father and that Nefermaat was Sneferu's son. Reisner argues against this theory and suggests that Nefertkau may have married her brother Khufu. He does allow for the possibility that Nefertkau married a noble man whose name was lost.[2]

Tomb

Nefertkau may have buried in mastaba G 7050 at Giza. The tomb is not inscribed however so that the ownership is somewhat conjectural.[3]

References

  1. ^ Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. ISBN 0-500-05128-3
  2. ^ Reisner, George A. “Nefertkauw, the eldest daughter of Sneferuw.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 64 (1929), pp. 97–99.
  3. ^ Porter, Bertha and Moss, Rosalind, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings Volume III: Memphis, Part I Abu Rawash to Abusir. 2nd edition (revised and augmented by Dr Jaromir Malek, 1974. Retrieved from gizapyramids.org