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Three pharaohs that are barely attested to by any artifacts, follow Sened. Nubnefer is one of them, attested to only by a few fragments found in the detritus near the Step Pyramid of Djoser. The name is presented with royal titles, and so is assumed to be for a pharaoh. Like Sened, he may have ruled only a portion of Egypt, and his name in a serekh (the "eureka!" of kingship), has not been found. His horus name has not been found in a serekh, and the fragmentary bits of his name that have been found have been read both ways -- Nubnefer and Nefernub. Nothing is mentioned of him in any king list, and if he was indeed a pharaoh at all, it was for a very short time. He has been placed near Ninetjer by the egyptologist Helck, but others do not support this finding. Others match Nubnefer with the king Khaires from Manetho, although a rule of 17 years as specified by Manetho seems very unlikely. Of course, a plausible explanation for finding his name in the proper "kingly" format is that Nubnefer is the Nesu-Bity name of king Reneb (who preceeded Ninetjer) and not a distinct person at all. No tomb has been found, although it is probably left beneath the sands of Saqqara near the other 2nd Dynasty pharaohs. |
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