King Sahure

Sahure

King of the Fifth Dynasty (2450-2300 BC)

Horus name: Neb-khau
Nebty name: Neb-khau-nebty
Golden Falcon name: Netjerwy-nub
Nomen: Sahure

Burial place: Pyramid at Abusir (called Kha-ba-Sahure)

A sun temple (called Sekhet-Re) is known from written sources, but has not yet been found

Attestations in the Petrie Museum

Further Attestations:

Inscriptions at Magharah (Sinai) (Gardiner/Peet/Cerný 1955: nos. 8-9)
Statue of the king in New York MMA. 18.2.4; unknown provenance (New York 1999: 328-330, no. 109)
In the biography of Peri-sen in his tomb at Saqqara (Sethe1933: 37)
In the biography of Niankhsakhment on his false door from Saqqara (Sethe1933: 38-40)
Mentioned in the tomb of Sekhemkare at Gizeh (Sethe 1933: 166)
Mentioned in the tomb of Nisutpunetjer at Gizeh (Sethe 1933: 166)
Gold leaf from a throne found at Dorak (Turkey) (Smith 1965: fig. 11)

Bibliography:

Petrie 1925a: 82-84 (good list of sources)
Borchardt 1910, Borchardt 1913 (excavation reports on the pyramid complex in Abusir)