Neferirkare was the second child of Khentkaus I to have
ruled Egypt.
Likewise with his sibling Sahure, it is not sure whether Userkaf was his dad.
Neferirkare was hitched to a name-purpose of his mother's, Khentkaus II. It is
not improbable that Khentkaus II too was identified with Khentkaus I. No less
than two youngsters are accepted to have been conceived of this marriage:
Neferefre and Niuserre. Different spouses and youngsters are not known.
The length of his rule is sadly lost on the Turin King-list
and the Palermo-stone breaks of subsequent to having recorded a fifth
numbering, which, if the tallying happened like clockwork, would imply that
Neferirkare at any rate led for a long time. As indicated by Manetho, his lead
gone on for a long time, a number which gives off an impression of being for
the most part acknowledged.
Neferirkare was the first king to have his birth-name made
part of the official titulary, thus adding a second cartouche. He also
completed (or modified) the solar-temple built by Userkaf in Abusir. His own
solar-temple, called Set-ib-Re, has yet to be located.
He was also the second king to erect his funerary monument
at Abusir. The seals and papyri discovered in his mortuary temple give some
insights into the functioning of this temple. The documents are dated to the
end of the 6th Dynasty, which indicates that the cult for the deceased
Neferirkare at least lasted until the end of the Old
Kingdom.
Nefererkara Kakai was probably the son of Userkaf, the first
king of the 5th Dynasty and thus younger (half-?) brother to his predecessor
king Sahure. His pyramid complex at Abusir was unfinished during his lifetime,
but obviously finished by his successors. About fifteen years after his death
king Neuserre incorporated both his valley temple and causeway into his own
complex (see view over Abusir). Somewhere in the vicinity he built a solar
temple, because the written historical texts say so, but nothing of this shrine
has so far been found and still waits to be dug out from the sand.
Egyptologists don't concede to the length of his rule and
figures in the vicinity of fourteen and twenty-four have been proposed.
Nefererkara is remarkable for a development in the long column of illustrious
names (titles). He was simply the primary ruler to give two names inside a
cartouche - one as the child of Re and one as his own name. Every one of his
supporters in Egyptian history took up this custom. At his pyramid complex
several parts of papyrus were found in the late 1800s and the written work was
in another "shorthand" kind of symbolic representations, the alleged
hieratic sort of signs utilized for commonsense reasons instead of
embellishing.
This first case of this kind of content clearly had quite a
while of improvement and is this present lord's most striking commitments to
Egyptology. Whenever decoded and distributed in the 1960s it ended up being
parts of the illustrious chronicle at the site. It contained subtle elements of
the organization for guarding the sanctuaries, dealing with the day by day
offerings like bread, lager, meat, fowl, corn and natural product. It likewise
demonstrated tables for standard examinations and records of the gear in the
religion of the dead pharaohs.
The name of his pyramid was: "The pyramid of the Ba-spirit".
