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Menkaure or Menkaura (Egyptian transliteration: mn-kꜣw-rꜥ; c. 2550 BC - c. 2503 BC) was a king of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt during the Old Kingdom.He is well known under his Hellenized names Mykerinos (Ancient Greek: Μυκερῖνος, romanized: Mukerînos by Herodotus), in turn Latinized as Mycerinus, and Menkheres (Μεγχέρης, Menkhérēs by Manetho).
Khamerernebty II is said to be the daughter of Khamerernebty I in her tomb. Khamerernebty I is thought to be the mother of Menkaure based on a partial inscription on a flint knife in the mortuary temple of Menkaure and hence a wife of King Khafre. This would imply that Khamerernebty II was the daughter of King Khafre and Khamerernebty I. [2]
Khamerernebty I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th dynasty.She was probably a wife of King Khafre and the mother of King Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty II.It is possible that she was a daughter of Khufu, based on the fact that inscriptions identify her as a King's daughter.
The Menkaure Valley temple was excavated between 1908 and 1910 by American archaeologist George Andrew Reisner. [9] He found a large number of statues, mostly of Menkaure alone, and as a member of a group. These were all carved in the naturalistic style of the Old Kingdom, with a high degree of detail. [10]
Information from its description page there is shown below. ... An old-kingdom Greywacke Statue of Menkaure flanked by Hathor and Anput, Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Old Kingdom Period: This collection includes a range of significant artifacts, such as the statues of Djoser, Khafre, Menkaure, Sheikh El-Balad, the dwarf Seneb, King Pepi I, his son Merenre, as well as numerous coffins, statues of individuals, wall paintings, and the collection of Queen Hetepheres.
His pyramid also features a statue of his wife, Hetepheres II, in the form of a sphinx. She was a daughter of Khufu and had been the wife of Kawab. It is sometimes suggested that this was the first true sphinx, although there is debate about the sphinx at Giza that was credited to Khafre.
Khentkaus I, also referred to as Khentkawes (fl. c. 2500 BC), was a royal woman who lived in ancient Egypt during both the Fourth Dynasty and the Fifth Dynasty. [2] She may have been a daughter of king Menkaure, the wife of both king Shepseskaf and king Userkaf (the founder of the Fifth Dynasty), the mother of king Sahure.