Egyptian queen consort From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neferu I ("the beauty") was the first queen of Ancient Egyptian Eleventh dynasty. She was a wife of the Pharaoh Mentuhotep I.[1]
Neferu in hieroglyphs |
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She was married to Mentuhotep I and had with him two sons Intef I and Intef II and she was a grandmother of Intef III and Queen Iah, his wife. She was also a great-grandmother of Neferu II.[2]
Her importance is confirmed by the number of the times she is mentioned in her son's texts .[3] She is identified as the mother of Intef II as she is mentioned in multiple texts of her son as born of Neferu[4]
It is also possible that she is the same as the Queen Neferukayet, who is thought to be wife of Intef II. Her titles would be then:
"King's wife, his beloved", "King's daughter" and "Royal Ornament".[5]
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