Neferkare Khendu (also Neferkare IV) was an ancient Egyptian

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of the

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during the early

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(2181–2055 BC). According to the Egyptologists

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and Darrell Baker he was the sixth king of the Eighth Dynasty.

: ''The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris'', Zeitschrift für ägyptische, 127, 2000, p. 91Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, , 2008, p. 268-269

: ''Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen (Münchner ägyptologische Studien)'', 1984 Neferkare Khendu's name is attested on the Abydos King List (number 45), a king list dating to the Ramesside-era, and is absent from the

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as a large lacuna in this document affects most kings of the 7th/8th Dynasty. Cylinder Khondy Petrie

No attestation is firmly attributable to Neferkare Khendu beyond the Abydos king list, although a cylinder seal inscribed with the cartouche ''Ḫndy'', "Khendy", has been tentatively attributed to him by the egyptologist

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in 1926.

: ''Egypt and Syria in the First Intermediate Period'' in JEA, vol 12 (1926), see p. 92 and fig. 6.

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: ''Scarabs and cylinders with names : illustrated by the Egyptian collection in University College, London (1917)'
available online
see pl. XIX, seal under the name "Khondy". Modern scholarship has shown however that the cartouche on the seal is most likely to read "

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", name of the last king of the

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, and furthermore that this cartouche was inserted on the seal as a space filler rather than as an explicit reference to this king. The seal is now in the

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, catalog number UC 11616.Seal with the cartouche of Khamud
Petrie Museum Online Catalog

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