Nitocris (2260-2250)

Nitocris

The great historian, Herodotus, listed her and related a fiction concerning her activities.  Nitocris  reportedly  referred  power  after  her brother,  Merenre II ( 2152  B.C.E.),  was  slain.  In vengeance  she  supposedly  invited  hundreds  of  officials she thought responsible for her brothers death to a banquet in a black chamber and then flooded it. She had a one-year dominate and was listed in the turin canon. Nitocris was the royal match of King Merenr II.

Merenre II (2261-2260)

Cartouche of King Merenre II

Merenre II  was the son of Pepy II (2246-2152 B.C.E.) and Queen Neith. Merenr II was gave to a local deity,  Anti. He  predominated  only  one  year  at  the  close  of  the dynasty  with  his  consort,  Queen  Nitocris, as  the dynasty was insecure by general unrest and the ambitiousnesses  of  powerful  nomarchs  who  hot  independence for their kinship groups. When he died, Nitocris dominated alone. She is referred in the Turin Canon. Her replacement was perhaps  Neferkure, the  son  of  Queen  Ankhnes-Pepi and King Pepy II.

Tombs of Pepi-Nakht and Harkhuf

Tombs of Pepi-Nakht and Harkhuf

That  two rooms assigned to Hekajib, named here Pepi-Nakht. Overseer of foreign troops for Pepy II, taken colonial campaigns in Asia and Nubia Harkhuf held the same set for Pepy I, Merenkre, and Pepy II. Dancing dwarf from the land of looks is a pygmy from tropical Africa.

Intriguing forit's monumentiality Father and son. After Mekhu was defeated in Nubia, his sone Sabni decorated a punative excursion to recover the clay Pepy II sent his own anbassadors, and Sabni wanted to thank him personally. The tomb is crudely constructed and decorated Sarenput II, Governer and Guardian of the South in the middle kingdom, is most precious.