Neferkamin Anu was a

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of ancient Egypt during the First Intermediate Period, c2181 - 2055 BC. According to the Abydos King List and the latest reconstruction of the

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, he was the 13th king of the Eighth Dynasty. This opinion is shared by the Egyptologists

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, Thomas Schneider and Darrell Baker.Jürgen von Beckerath: ''Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen''.

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, München/ Berlin 1984, , p. 59, 187.Thomas Schneider: Lexikon der Pharaonen. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, , p. 174.Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, , 2008, p. 263-264 As a pharaoh of the Eighth Dynasty, Neferkamin Anu would have reigned over the Memphite region.

Attestations

Neferkamin Anu is mentioned on the entry 52 of the Abydos King list, which was compiled in the early

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. The list names his predecessor as Neferkare Pepiseneb and his successor as

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. The

identifies Nerferkamin Anu with a ''Nefer'' mentioned on column 4, line 10 of the document, which is in agreement with the Abydos king list.

: "''The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris''", Zeitschrift für ägyptische, 127, 2000 Any detail about Neferkamin Anu's reign is lost in a

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of the Turin canon.

Name

The name of Neferkamin Anu is transliterated as ''Neferkamin Anu'' even though it is reported as ''Sneferka Anu'' on the Abydos King list. The reason for this transliteration is that the hieroglyph sign O34, reading ''s'', could replace the sign R22 for the god

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and reading ''Mn''.

References

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