Neferkare (9th dynasty)

Neferkare
Neferkare III, VII, VIII, IX; Kaneferre(?)
Pharaoh
Reign	c. 2140 BCE
Predecessor	Meryibre Khety (not directly)
Successor	Nebkaure Khety
Royal titulary Prenomen  (Praenomen) Neferkare nfr-k3-rˁ Beautiful is the ka of Ra
Dynasty	9th Dynasty

Neferkare was the third pharaoh of the ninth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, ca. 2140 BCE (during the First Intermediate Period), according to the Turin King List where his name, Neferkare, is inscribed in the register 4.20.
Neferkare is not included on the Abydos King List or the Saqqara King List, nor can the existence of his reign be positively confirmed through archaeological finds.

If he was an actual pharaoh, the prenomen Neferkare suggests he considered himself a legitimate successor of Pepi II Neferkare of the sixth Dynasty, much like the many namesake Memphite kings of the seventh and eighth Dynasties.

This otherwise unattested ruler of Herakleopolis Magna has been controversially identified by various scholars with a king named Ka-nefer-re, who is mentioned in an obscure and isolated tomb inscription of Ankhtifi, the pro-Herakleopolite nomarch of Hieraconpolis and prince of El-Mo'alla, about 30 km (19 mi) south of Thebes.
If Neferkare and Kaneferre were the same pharaoh, his authority is assumed from Ankhtifi's inscription to have extended at least over Elephantine, Edfu and Hieraconpolis, the capitals of the first three nomoi of Upper Egypt.

Bibliography

William C. Hayes, in The Cambridge Ancient History, vol 1, part 2, 1971 (2008), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-077915, pp. 464–465.

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