King of the Fourth Dynasty (about 2600-2450)

Attestations in the Petrie Museum:

Seal impressions of more than 20 seals from Buhen (click on the picture to see more of them)

Other attestations:

• In the biography of Debhen in his tomb at Gizeh (Sethe 1933: 18-21)
• In the biography of Nikaankh in his tomb at Tehne (Sethe 1933: 25)
• In the biography of Ptahshepses on a false door (from his tomb?); now in the British Museum, London (Sethe 1933: 51)
• Mentioned in the tomb of Sekhemkare at Gizeh (Sethe 1933: 166)
• Mentioned in the tomb of Nisutpunetjer at Gizeh (Sethe 1933: 166)
• Named on object found at Byblos (Dunand 1939: 169)

The sculptures representing the king:

• New York 1999: 269-276, nos. 67-70 (good colour photographs; with further literature)

Bibliography:

• Petrie 1925a: 71-74 (with list of sources known at that time
• Reisner 1931 (on the pyramid temples of the king)

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