Neferkare Neby (also Neferkare III) was an ancient Egyptian

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of the Seventh or Eighth Dynasty during the early First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC).Darrell D. Baker, ''The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I – Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300-1069 BC'', Stacey International, , 2008, p. 267-268. According to Egyptologists

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and Darrell Baker, he was the fourth king of the Seventh dynasty, as he appears as the fourth king in the Abydos King List within the list of kings assigned to this dynasty.

, ''Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen'' (Münchner Ägyptologische Studien 20), 1984. Neferkare Neby's name is clearly readable on the Abydos King List (number 43), and unlike most kings of this period, is attested by a further two contemporary sources. Indeed, Neferkare Neby's name appears on the false door at Ankhesenpepi II's tomb, and is also inscribed on her sarcophagus. These attestations show that Neferkare Neby's mother was possibly Queen Ankhesenpepi II, which would presumably make his father

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. The stele of Ankhesenpepi II records that Neferkare Neby begun the construction of a

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, possibly at

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and named him as ''Ḏd-ˁnḫ Nfr-k3-rˁ nbjj'', that is Djedankh Neferkare Neby and which means “Neferkare Neby is Enduring of Life”. The location of the pyramid is unknown and it most probably never significantly entered the building stage. Like many kings of the Eighth Dynasty, Neferkare Neby is absent from the

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as a large

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affects the location where his name would have been listed.

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, “The Late Old Kingdom in the Turin King-list and the Identity of Nitocris”, ''Zeitschrift for ägyptische Sprache'' 127, 2000, p. 99.

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