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Pharaoh Kawab



Pharaoh Kawab is the figure of an ancient Egyptian prince of the Fourth Dynasty. He was the first son of King Khufu and Queen Meritites I. Kawab served as vizier and was buried in the double mastaba G 7110 - 7120 in the east field which is part of the Giza Necropolis.

He was the original son of Pharaoh Khufu and Meritites I and half brothers of pharaohs Djedefre and Khafre. He was maybe born during the reign of his grandfather Sneferu. Kawab married his baby Hetepheres II. They had at least three sons named Duaenhor, Kaemsekhem and Mindjedef and a daughter Meresankh III.[1]

Kawab died during the dominate of his father[2] so the next ruler was Djedefre, who married his widow Hetepheres II. It practiced to be believed that Djedefre had Kawab murdered, since Djedefre was swallowed in Abu Rawash, instead of Giza, which was the custom. Djedefre's pyramid was too vandalized, but it is now thought that the tomb was vandalised much advanced, that is, through the Roman times.