Neferirkare

Neferirkare
Neferirkare
Neferirkare II
	The cartouche of Neferirkare on the Abydos King List.
Pharaoh
Reign	1 year and 6 months, c. 2160 BC
Predecessor	Neferkauhor
Successor	uncertain; possibly Meryibre Khety
Horus name
Horus name
	Demedjibtawy; Dmḏ-ib-t3wy; He who unifies the heart of the two lands
Prenomen (Praenomen)
	Neferirkare; Nfr-jrj k3 Rˁ; What the Ka of Ra does is perfect
Nomen
	Pepy
	;
Burial	unknown
Dynasty	Eighth Dynasty

Neferirkare (sometimes referred to as Neferirkare II because of Neferirkare Kakai) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Eighth Dynasty during the early First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC). According to the egyptologists Kim Ryholt, Jürgen von Beckerath and Darrell Baker he was the 17th and final king of the Eighth Dynasty.^[1]^[2]^[3] Many scholars consider Neferirkare to have been the last pharaoh of the Old Kingdom, which came to an end with the 8th Dynasty.^[4]

^ Kim Ryholt: "The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris", Zeitschrift für ägyptische, 127, 2000, p. 99
^ Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 260
^ Jürgen von Beckerath: Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, Münchner ägyptologische Studien, Heft 49, Mainz : P. von Zabern, 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2591-6, available online Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine see p. 68
^ Renate Mueller-Wollermann: End of the Old Kingdom, UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (2014), available online.