| Neferu II | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King's wife; King's daughter | |||||
 Funerary figurine of Neferu made from wax, from TT319. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |||||
| Burial | TT319 | ||||
| Spouse | Mentuhotep II | ||||
| Egyptian name |
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| Dynasty | 11th Dynasty | ||||
| Father | Intef III | ||||
| Mother | Iah | ||||
Neferu II was the wife and sister of the ancient Egyptian king Mentuhotep II who ruled in the 11th Dynasty, around 2000 BC.
Neferu is mainly known from her tomb (TT319) at Deir el-Bahari. The tomb was found badly destroyed but the decorated burial chamber was well preserved and many fragments from the reliefs in the tomb chapel were found.
Her main titles were king's wife and king's daughter. The inscriptions in the tomb mention that she was the daughter of a person called Iah, most likely the king's mother Iah who was the mother of king Mentuhotep II. She was therefore his sister. It is known that Mentuhotep II was the son of king Intef III who was most likely the father of Neferu.
References
- ^ Wolfram Grajetzki: Ancient Egyptian Queens, a hieroglyphic dictionary, Golden House P. London, 2005, p. 28
- Grajetzki, Wolfram (2024). The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt: history, archaeology and society (2nd ed.). London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-350-45553-5.
- ^ Porter, Bertha; Moss, Rosalind L. B. (1960). Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs, and paintings. Vol I, Part 1: The Theban necropolis. Oxford: Griffith Inst., Ashmolean Museum. pp. 391–393. ISBN 978-0-900416-10-1.
- William C. Hayes: The Scepter of Egypt I, New York 1953, ISBN 0870991906, p. 160; 327
Literature
- Joyce Tyldesley: Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006, ISBN 0-500-05145-3, p. 67.
