Neferkare (9th dynasty)

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Neferkare VII was the third

First Intermediate Period), according to the Turin King List
where his name, Neferkare, is inscribed in the register 4.20.

Neferkare is not included on the

Saqqara King List, nor can the existence of his reign be positively confirmed through archaeological finds.[1]

The

).

This otherwise unattested ruler of

El-Mo'alla, about 30 km (19 mi) south of Thebes.[1]

If Neferkare and Kaneferre were the same pharaoh, his authority is sometimes presumed from Ankhtifi's inscription to have extended at least over
Elephantine, Edfu and Hieraconpolis, the capitals of the first three nomoi of Upper Egypt. However, the inscription in question simply states "Horus brings/brought (or may Horus bring) a (good) inundation for his son Ka-nefer-Re." Uncertainty about the verb tense in the inscription has led to disagreement among various scholars as to whether this named pharaoh would have ruled in Ankhtifi's youth, or at the time of the events he describes, or indeed if it were not a king before Ankhtifi's time, who had ruled toward the end of the Old Kingdom from Memphis.[1]

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