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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).
Based on comparative analysis of textual and epigraphic evidence, historical linguists and philologists have been able to reconstruct with a comfortable level of certainty several epithets and expressions that were associated with *Dʰéǵʰōm in Proto-Indo-European times: *Pl̥th₂éwih₂ (the 'Broad One'), *Dʰéǵʰōm Méh₂tēr ('Mother-Earth'), and, in this form or a similar one ...
Khafre [a] or Chephren [b] (died c. 2532 BC) was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the fourth king of the Fourth Dynasty, during the earlier half of the Old Kingdom period (c. 2700–2200 BC). He was son of the king Khufu, and succeeded his brother Djedefre to the throne.
Menkauhor Kaiu (also known as Ikauhor and in Greek as Mencherês, Μεγχερῆς; died c. 2414 BC) [16] was an Ancient Egyptian king of the Old Kingdom period. He was the seventh ruler of the Fifth Dynasty at the end of the 25th century BC or early in the 24th century BC.
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]
An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld. [1]
Khamerernebty I's titles were: great of praises (weret-hezut, wrt-ḥz wt), great one of the hetes-sceptre (weret-hetes, wrt-ḥts), she who sees Horus and Seth (maat-hor-setekh, mꜣꜣt-ḥr-stẖ), mother of the dual king (mut-nesut-biti, mwt-nswt-bjtj), god's daughter (zat-netjer, zꜣt-nṯr), priestess of Thoth (hemet-netjer-djehuti, ḥmt-nṯr-ḏḥwtj), priestess of Tjazepef (hemet ...
The site was visited the following year by Karl Richard Lepsius, [7] on sponsorship from King Frederick William IV of Prussia. [8] [9] He believed the tomb was a private one, and designated it 100 [10] on his map. [6] In 1912, Uvo Hölscher identified the structure as "the unfinished pyramid of Shepseskaf".