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s-nfr-f:r-w Sneferukhaf was an Egyptian
prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...
who lived during the
4th Dynasty The Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty IV) is characterized as a "golden age" of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Dynasty IV lasted from to 2494 BC. It was a time of peace and prosperity as well as one during which trade with other ...
. He was a son of Prince
Nefermaat II Nefermaat II was a member of the Egyptian royal family during the 4th Dynasty and vizier of Khafre (his cousin). Nefermaat was a son of a King's Daughter Nefertkau I and a grandson of Pharaoh Sneferu.Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topogra ...
and unknown woman, and thus a grandson of
Princess Princess is a regal rank and the feminine equivalent of prince (from Latin ''princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or for the daughter of a king or prince. Princess as a subst ...
Nefertkau I Nefertkau I was a 4th Dynasty princess of ancient Egypt. She was the eldest daughter of King Sneferu and hence a half-sister to King Khufu. She was the mother of Nefermaat II and the grandmother of Sneferukhaf. Nefertkau is explicitly said to ...
. He was named after his great-grandfather,
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 the an ...
Sneferu Sneferu ( snfr-wj "He has perfected me", from ''Ḥr-nb-mꜣꜥt-snfr-wj'' "Horus, Lord of Maat, has perfected me", also read Snefru or Snofru), well known under his Hellenized name Soris ( grc-koi, Σῶρις by Manetho), was the founding phar ...
. He had two sons. He was buried in
mastaba A mastaba (, or ), also mastabah, mastabat or pr- djt (meaning "house of stability", " house of eternity" or "eternal house" in Ancient Egyptian), is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with inwar ...
G 7070 at
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.


Titles

His full list of titles were:
Translations and indexes from Dilwyn Jones. Jones, Dilwyn, ''An Index Of Ancient Egyptian Titles Epithets And Phrases Of The Old Kingdom 1 & 2'' BAR, 2000, .


References

{{Authority control Princes of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt