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.