Nefertkau II was an Ancient Egyptian noble lady, the wife of Prince Khufukhaf I, son of

pharaoh Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian: '' pr ꜥꜣ''; cop, , Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until th ...

Khufu Khufu or Cheops was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period ( 26th century BC). Khufu succeeded his father Sneferu as king. He is generally accepted as having c ...

.Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. Nefertkau and Khufukhaf had several children including two sons named

Wetka Wetka was an ancient Egyptian high official, bearing the honorary title of "king's son". He is also called Tuka or Tuwka. He lived in the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt. Family Wetka was a son of Prince Khufukhaf I and Princess consort Nefertkau II. T ...

and

Iuenka Iuenka was a Prince of Egypt, a man with the title "king's son". He is also called Iunka, Yuwenka, Iun-ka and Iuwenka. He lived in the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt. Family Iuenka was a son of Prince Khufukhaf I and Princess consort Nefertkau II. Thus ...

, as well as an unnamed daughter. Both sons Wetka and Iuenka appear in the tomb of Khufukhaf and Nefertkau offering papyrus. They are both are given the title ''King's son''. An unnamed daughter is depicted behind her seated parents in the inner hall of the mastaba.Porter, Bertha and Moss, Rosalind, ''Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings'' Volume III: Memphis, Part I Abu Rawash to Abusir. 2nd edition; revised and augmented by Dr Jaromir Malek, 1974. Retrieved from gizapyramids.org It is possible that an official named Khufukhaf II is a third son of Khufukhaf I and Nefertkau.

Tomb

Nefertkau was buried in G 7130 in

Giza Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah'' arz, الجيزة ' ) is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9.2 ...

located in the east field which is part of the

Giza Necropolis The Giza pyramid complex ( ar, مجمع أهرامات الجيزة), also called the Giza necropolis, is the site on the Giza Plateau in Greater Cairo, Egypt that includes the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of ...

. The tomb was part of the double mastaba constructed for Nefertkau and her husband Khufukhaf I. According to Reisner the construction of the tomb would have started by year 17-24 of the reign of

.George A. Reisner, ''A History of the Giza Necropolis I'', Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp 70-74, Retrieved fro
Giza Digital Library: History of the Giza Necropolis Series
/ref> Nefertkau is depicted in the hall and the inner hall of the mastaba. Fragments of inscriptions remain showing Khufukhaf I was depicted several times in her chapel. Her son Wetka is depicted at least once.George A. Reisner and William Stevenson Smith, A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Appendix B: Cemetery 7000 by George Reisner, Harvard University Press, 1955, pp. 32-3
Appendix B: Cemetery 7000 by George Reisner
/ref> Nefertkau was buried in shaft G 7130 B. The shaft contained fragments of a red granite sarcophagus. The burial chamber had been reused in the Ptolemaic period. When excavated, a shaft was found leading to the

Isis Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...

's temple nearby and intrusive

shabti The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from , which replaced earlier , perhaps the nisba of "' ...

s were found on the floor.

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