Pharaoh and founder of the 4th dynasty of Ancient Egypt
This article is about the Egyptian pharaoh. For the cryptographic hash function, see Snefru.
Sneferu
Snefru, Seneferu, Snofru, Soris
Limestone statue of Sneferu, Egyptian Museum
Pharaoh
Reign
24, 30 or 48 years[1] c. 2600 BC
Predecessor
Huni[2]
Successor
Khufu
Royal titulary
Horus name
Hor-Nebmaat Ḥr-nb-mꜣꜥt "Horus, Lord of the Maat"
Second Horus name: Hor-Nebmaat Snefru Ḥr-nb-mꜣꜥt-snfr-wj "Horus, Lord of Maat, has perfected me"
Nebty name
Nisut Bity Nebmaat Nebty Nsw.t-bty-nbt.j-nb-mꜣꜥt "King of Upper and Lower Egypt, he of the two ladies, Lord of the Maat"
Golden Horus
Bik-nebu Bjk-nb.w "Golden Falcon"
Abydos King List Snefru snfr-wj "He has perfected me"
Saqqara Tablet Snefru snfr-wj "He has perfected me"
Turin King List Snefer... S.nfr... "He has perfected..."
[3]
Prenomen (Praenomen)
Snefru Snfr.w ""He has perfected me"
Alternative spelling:
Consort
Hetepheres I
Children
Khufu, Ankhhaf, Kanefer, Nefermaat, Netjeraperef, Rahotep, Ranefer, Iynefer I, Hetepheres A, Nefertkau I, Nefertnesu, Meritites I, Henutsen
Mother
Meresankh I
Burial
Red Pyramid (possibly)
Monuments
Meidum Pyramid, Bent Pyramid, Red Pyramid
Dynasty
Fourth Dynasty
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),[4] well known under his Hellenized name Soris (Koinē Greek: Σῶρις by Manetho), was the founding pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom. Estimates of his reign vary, with for instance The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt suggesting a reign from around 2613 to 2589 BC,[5] a reign of 24 years, while Rolf Krauss suggests a 30-year reign,[6] and Rainer Stadelmann a 48-year reign.[7] He built at least three pyramids that survive to this day and introduced major innovations in the design and construction of pyramids.
^Thomas Schneider: Lexikon der Pharaonen. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3, pp. 278–279
^A. Dodson & D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames and Hudson Ltd: London, 2004.
^Jaromir Malek in The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, p. 87
^Krauss, Rolf (1996). "The length of Sneferu's reign and how long it took to build the 'Red Pyramid'". Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 82: 43–50. doi:10.2307/3822113. JSTOR 3822113.
^Rainer Stadelmann: Beiträge zur Geschichte des Alten Reiches: Die Länge der Regierung des Snofru. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Institutes Kairo (MDAIK), Vol. 43. von Zabern, Mainz 1987, ISSN 0342-1279, pp. 229–240.
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...
rulers the leisure to explore more artistic and cultural pursuits. King Sneferu's building experiments led to the evolution from the mastaba-styled step...
Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu (c. 2600 BC). A unique example of early pyramid development in Egypt, this was the second pyramid built by Sneferu. The Bent Pyramid...
Dynasty of Egypt. c. 2670–2620 BC: The reign of the pharaoh Sneferu and his vizier Nefermaat. Sneferu leads a campaign in Nubia and returns with about 7,000...
beneath. The Red Pyramid was the third pyramid built by Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu, and was built 2575–2563 BCE. The Red Pyramid is located approximately...
relatively unknown outside archaeological circles. The southern Pyramid of Sneferu, commonly known as the Bent Pyramid, is believed to be the first Egyptian...
of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC). Khufu succeeded his father Sneferu as king. He is generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid...
This pyramid is believed to be the resting place of King Sneferu. Shortly after King Sneferu's death a third pyramid was erected by his son Khufu. Khufu...
Djedi (also Dedi or Djedi of Djed-Sneferu) is the name of a fictional ancient Egyptian magician appearing in the fourth chapter of a story told in the...
reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the Fourth Dynasty, such as King Sneferu, who perfected the art of pyramid-building, and the kings Khufu, Khafre...
disagreement among Egyptologists whether Sneferu or his predecessor Huni built the tower core, it is generally accepted Sneferu at the least was responsible for...
built for Huni, the last pharaoh of the Third Dynasty, and continued by Sneferu. Because of its unusual appearance, the pyramid is called el-heram el-kaddaab...
and Egyptian ships sailed the Red Sea as far as the myrrh-country." Sneferu's ancient cedar wood ship Praise of the Two Lands is the first reference...
dynasty of Egypt. Hetepheres I, wife of Pharaoh Sneferu and mother of Khufu Hetepheres A, daughter of Sneferu, wife of Ankhhaf Hetepheres II, daughter of...
ancient Egypt during the 4th Dynasty. He was probably a son of Pharaoh Sneferu and his first wife, although Zahi Hawass suggests his father was Huni....
(fl. c. 2575–2551 B.C.) was an ancient Egyptian prince, a son of king Sneferu. He was a vizier possessing the titles of the king's eldest son, royal...
loves life") was an ancient Egyptian kingʻs wife and the mother of King Sneferu. She may have been a wife of King Huni, the last king of the 3rd Dynasty...
has not been excavated. The tomb of Queen Hetepheres I, sister-wife of Sneferu and mother of Khufu, is located approximately 110 metres (360 ft) east...
other royal burials; the necropolis of Dahshur, site of the Red Pyramid of Sneferu, the oldest "true" pyramid; and Abydos, site of a necropolis containing...
attributed to Kagemni, a vizier who served during the reign of the Pharaoh Sneferu (r. 2613–2589 BC), founder of the Fourth Dynasty (belonging to the Old...
Djoser, Nebka and Sneferu. Baufra appears as the narrator of the third story. Baufra tells the tale about his royal grandfather Sneferu, Khufu's father...
have been a wife of King Sneferu, and was the mother of King Khufu. It is possible that Hetepheres had been a minor wife of Sneferu and only rose in prominence...
every second year; thus records of as many as 24 cattle censuses indicate Sneferu had reigned 48 years. However, further research has shown that these censuses...
He is said to have worked wonders during the reign of king (pharaoh) Sneferu (4th Dynasty). Djadjaemankh appears only in the third story of the Westcar...
into common use until the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty under Pharaoh Sneferu. While the cartouche is usually vertical with a horizontal line, if it...
thought that the Meidum Pyramid was not Sneferu's work, but that of king Huni. Ancient Egyptian documents describe Sneferu as a pious, generous and even accostable...
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