Neferu I

Neferu I
Neferu I
	A relief of Queen Neferu I from Brooklyn Museum
Title	Queen of Egypt
Spouse(s)	King Mentuhotep I
Children	Intef I; Intef II
Relatives	Intef III (grandson)

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

Biography

Reconstruction of the stela of queen Neferu I

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]

References

↑ Dynasty 11
↑ Dodson, A., Hilton, D., The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson, 2004
↑ Earliest records of women from Ancient Egypt and Western Asia by Barabra p.31
↑ Dodson, A., Hilton, D., The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson, 2004 p.83
↑ Intef II

[1] Dynasty 11

[2] Dodson, A., Hilton, D., The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson, 2004

[3] Earliest records of women from Ancient Egypt and Western Asia by Barabra p.31

[4] Dodson, A., Hilton, D., The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson, 2004 p.83

[5] Intef II

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