Neferu II
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Neferu II
{{center|
| image = Figurine Neferu Met.jpg
| caption = Funerary figurine of Neferu made from wax, from TT319. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
| succession = Queen consort of Egypt
| reign = c. 2050 BC
| regent = Mentuhotep II
| reg-type = King
| place of burial = TT319
| consort = yes
| spouse = Mentuhotep II
| dynasty = 11th Dynasty
| father = Intef III
| mother = Possibly Iah
}}
Neferu II ({{fl.|{{circa}} 2050 BC}}{{Cite book |last=Grajetzki |first=Wolfram |title=The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt: history, archaeology and society |date=2024 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-350-45553-5 |edition=2nd |location=London; New York |pages=18}}) was the wife and sister of the ancient Egyptian king Mentuhotep II who ruled in the 11th Dynasty.
Biography
File:Egyptian - Woman Carrying a Sunshade - Walters 22325.jpg. Walters Art Museum.]]
Neferu II https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/person/2457 held the titles king's wife and king's daughter.Wolfram Grajetzki: Ancient Egyptian Queens, a hieroglyphic dictionary, Golden House P. London, 2005, p. 28 The inscriptions in the tomb mention that she was the daughter of a person called Iah,William C. Hayes: The Scepter of Egypt I, New York 1953, {{ISBN|0870991906}}, p. 160; 327 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.
Death and Burial
Neferu is mainly known from her tomb (TT319) at Deir el-Bahari.{{Cite book |last=Porter |first=Bertha |title=Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs, and paintings. Vol I, Part 1: The Theban necropolis |last2=Moss |first2=Rosalind L. B. |date=1960 |publisher=Griffith Inst., Ashmolean Museum |isbn=978-0-900416-10-1 |edition= |location=Oxford |pages=391–393}} 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.
References
Literature
- Joyce Tyldesley: Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006, {{ISBN|0-500-05145-3}}, p. 67.
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Category:Queens consort of the Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt