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Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period: rulers and royal family

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Nebiryaw I

Sewadjenre Nebiryaw I, also written Nebiriau I or Nebiryraw I, was a pharaoh of the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning about 26 years.

Nebiryaw II

Nebiryaw II, also written Nebiriau II or Nebiryerawet II, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 16th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, placed around 1601 BC and known only from the Turin King List.

Nebmaatre (pharaoh)

Nebmaatre is a poorly attested pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, tentatively assigned to the Seventeenth Dynasty and known only from a lion figure in the Petrie Museum.

Nebsenre

Nebsenre was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty in the Second Intermediate Period, known only from the Turin King List, which records a reign of 5 months and 20 days.

Nedjemibre

Nedjemibre, also spelled Nedjemibra, was an obscure king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, dated to about 1780 BC and known essentially from a single entry in the Turin King List.

Neferhotep I

Neferhotep I, also known as Khasekhemre Neferhotep, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty who reigned around 1740 BC, one of the dynasty's most powerful rulers.

Neferhotep II

Neferhotep II, throne name Mersekhemre, was a pharaoh of the late Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known chiefly from two statues found at Karnak in 1904.

Neferhotep III

Neferhotep III, throne name Sekhemre Sankhtawy, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Theban 16th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning about one year around 1629–1628 BC.

Neferitatjenen

Neferitatjenen was a royal woman of Egypt's early Twelfth Dynasty, remembered as a wife of Amenemhat I and the mother of his successor Senusret I.

Neferthenut

Neferthenut, also rendered Nefrethenut, was a queen of the Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian king Senusret III, buried in one of four small pyramids north of his pyramid at Dahshur.

Neferu II

Neferu II was a queen of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, probably the royal wife and sister of Mentuhotep II, buried in rock-cut tomb TT 319 at Deir el-Bahari in Thebes.

Neferu III

Neferu III was an Egyptian queen of the Twelfth Dynasty who linked three kings: daughter of Amenemhat I, wife of Senusret I, and mother of Amenemhat II.

Neferuptah

Neferuptah, also known as Nefruptah, was a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian princess and daughter of King Amenemhat III, known from her undisturbed burial at Hawara in the Fayum, excavated in 1956.

Nehesy

Nehesy, throne name Aasehre, was a king of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, around 1705 BC, ruling from Avaris in the north-eastern Nile Delta.

Neni (queen)

Neni was an ancient Egyptian queen consort of the Thirteenth Dynasty, known only from stelae; her royal husband is disputed between Sobekhotep II and Sobekhotep III.

Nerikare

Nerikare was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty during the late Middle Kingdom, known today only through an entry in the Turin King-list, with no surviving monuments.

Nikare II

Nikare II is a poorly attested pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, assigned by some reconstructions to the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty, though his membership is disputed.

Nofret II

Nofret II was a royal woman of Egypt's 12th Dynasty under Senusret II, known from statues at Tanis; whether she was the king's wife or daughter is disputed.

Nubemhat

Nubemhat was a queen of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, Great Royal Wife of King Sobekemsaf I, known from a stela from Dendera and a statue from Kawa.

Nubhetepti

Nubhetepti was a Great Royal Wife of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, known from scarab seals and probably the wife of King Hor Awibre, reigning around 1777–1775 BC.

Nubhetepti-khered

Nubhetepti-khered, also written Noub-Hotep-khered, was an ancient Egyptian king's daughter of the early Thirteenth Dynasty, probably a daughter of King Hor, found intact at Dahshur in 1894.

Nubkheperre Intef

Nubkheperre Intef, also known as Intef Nubkheperre, was an Egyptian king of the Seventeenth Dynasty who reigned at Thebes around 1560 BC, during the Second Intermediate Period.

Pantjeny

Pantjeny was a pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, c. 1650 BC, known almost entirely from a single stela found at Abydos and tentatively assigned to the Abydos Dynasty.

Qareh

Khawoserre Qareh, or Qareh, was possibly a king of Egypt's 14th Dynasty in the Second Intermediate Period, dated c. 1770–1760 BC and known only from three scarab seals.

Rahotep

Rahotep, or Sekhemre-Wahkhau Rahotep, was a pharaoh of the Second Intermediate Period, usually assigned to the Theban 17th Dynasty and known chiefly from a stela at Koptos.

Renseneb

Renseneb, written rn(.i)-snb(w), was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty attested on the Turin King List and a glazed steatite bead, with a four-month reign around 1777 BC.

Sadeh (queen)

Sadeh was an ancient Egyptian royal wife of Mentuhotep II, the Dynasty 11 king who founded the Middle Kingdom, buried at Deir el-Bahari in Thebes.

Sahathor

Sahathor, also written Sihathor, was a short-reigning pharaoh of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, placed between Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV around 1733 BC.

Sakir-Har

Sakir-Har was a Hyksos ruler of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, attested in the 16th century BC and placed by a 2023 reconstruction at the head of the 15th Dynasty.

Salitis

Salitis, also Salatis, is the first Hyksos king of Egypt's 15th Dynasty in Manetho's account, traditionally ruling from Memphis and fortifying Avaris, though no contemporary record names him.