Nikaure

Nikaure
Nikaure; Vizier
Dynasty	4th Dynasty
Pharaoh	likely Menkaure
Father	Khafre
Mother	Persenet
Wife	Nikanebti I
Children	Nikaure II; Nikanebti II; Hetepheres (D)
Burial	Mastaba LG 87 in Giza

Nikaure in hieroglyphs
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Nikaure was an ancient Egyptian prince and vizier during the 4th Dynasty. His titles include king's eldest son of his body (sA-nswt n Xt=f), as well as chief justice and vizier (smsw tAjtj sAb TAtj).[1]

Family

Nikaure was a son of Pharaoh Khafre and Queen Persenet.[2] His wife was named Nikanebti. She was a priestess of Hathor, Mistress of the Sycamore in all her places.[3]

In Nikaure's tomb a will outlining his legacy is preserved. The will is dated to the "year of the twelfth occurrence of the numbering of large and small cattle (year 24 of Khafre).[4] Nikaure leaves property to his wife Nikanebti, his son Nikaure, his daughter Hetepheres, and his son Ka-en-nebti-wer. The property that would have gone to a (presumably) deceased daughter reverts to Nikaure's wife Nikanebti.[5]

Tomb

Nikaure's tomb is LG 87 in Giza using the numbering introduced by Lepsius.[3] It is also given the designation G 8158, and is located in the Central Field which is part of the Giza Necropolis.[1]

Sources

Giza pyramids by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Archived October 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3
Porter and Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings; Part III
Verner, Miroslav. "Contemporaneous Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Dyns. 4 and 5." In Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss & David A. Warburton, eds. Ancient Egyptian Chronology, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006, p. 134.
Breasted, James H. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, Collected Edited and Translated with Commentary, Vol. 1: The First to the Seventeenth Dynasties. Ancient Records. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906, pp. 88-90.

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[GP-1] Giza pyramids by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Archived October 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

[D60-2] Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3

[PM-3] Porter and Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings; Part III

[4] Verner, Miroslav. "Contemporaneous Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Dyns. 4 and 5." In Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss & David A. Warburton, eds. Ancient Egyptian Chronology, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006, p. 134.

[5] Breasted, James H. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, Collected Edited and Translated with Commentary, Vol. 1: The First to the Seventeenth Dynasties. Ancient Records. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906, pp. 88-90.