Neferkare Khendu
| Neferkare Khendu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Neferkare IV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 The cartouche of Neferkare Khendu on the Abydos King List. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Djedkare Shemai? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Merenhor? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | Eighth Dynasty? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Neferkare Khendu (also Neferkare IV) was an
First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC). According to the Egyptologists Kim Ryholt, Jürgen von Beckerath and Darrell Baker he was the sixth king of the Eighth Dynasty.[1][2][3]
Neferkare Khendu's name is attested on the Abydos King List (number 45), a king list dating to the Ramesside-era, and is absent from the Turin canon as a large lacuna in this document affects most kings of the 7th/8th Dynasty.[1]
No attestation is firmly attributable to Neferkare Khendu beyond the Abydos king list, although a cylinder seal inscribed with the cartouche Ḫndy, "Khendy", has been tentatively attributed to him by the egyptologist
Petrie Museum, catalog number UC 11616.[6]
References
- ^ a b Kim Ryholt: The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris, Zeitschrift für ägyptische, 127, 2000, p. 91
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 268-269
- ^ Jürgen von Beckerath: Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen (Münchner ägyptologische Studien), 1984
- ^ a b Henri Frankfort: Egypt and Syria in the First Intermediate Period in JEA, vol 12 (1926), see p. 92 and fig. 6.
- ^ a b Flinders Petrie: Scarabs and cylinders with names : illustrated by the Egyptian collection in University College, London (1917) available online, see pl. XIX, seal under the name "Khondy".
- ^ a b Seal with the cartouche of Khamudi Petrie Museum Online Catalog.