Predecessor Neferkare II? Father Pepi II Neferkare? | Successor Djedkare Shemai? Mother Ankhesenpepi II? | |
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Reign Unknown (7th or 8th Dynasty?) Burial Pyramid "Neferkare Neby is Enduring of Life", presumably at Saqqara Similar Merenre Nemtyemsaf II, Psammuthes, Userkare, Nepherites I, Hotepsekhemwy | ||
Neferkare Neby (also Neferkare III) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 7th/8th Dynasty during the early First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC). According to egyptologists Jürgen von Beckerath and Darell Baker, he was the fourth king of the seventh dynasty, as he appears as the fourth king in the Abydos King List within the list of kings assigned to this dynasty.
Neferkare Neby's name is clearly readable on the Abydos King List (number 43), and unlike most kings of this period, is attested by a further two contemporary sources. Indeed, Neferkare Neby's name appears on the false door at Ankhesenpepi II's tomb, and is also inscribed on her sarcophagus. These attestations show that Neferkare Neby's mother was apparently Queen Ankhesenpepi II, which would presumably make his father Pepi II Neferkare, the last great pharaoh of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. The stele of Ankhesenpepi II records that Neferkare Neby begun the construction of a pyramid, possibly at Saqqara and named Ḏd-ˁnḫ Nfr-k3-rˁ nbjj, that is Djedankh Neferkare Neby and which means “Neferkare Neby is Enduring of Life”. The location of the pyramid is unknown and it most probably never significantly entered the building stage.
Like many kings of the 7th/8th dynasty, Neferkare Neby is absent from the Turin canon as a large lacuna affects the location where his name would have been listed.