Nebkaure Khety

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Middle Kingdom ruler ancient Egyptian pharaoh human

Nebkaure Khety was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the early Middle Kingdom, traditionally associated with the 9th or 10th Dynasty and remembered primarily from literary and administrative sources rather than monumental remains.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Nubkaure	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Middle Kingdom ruler ⓘ ancient Egyptian pharaoh ⓘ human ⓘ
associatedWith	Herakleopolitan dynasties NERFINISHED ⓘ internal conflict in Egypt ⓘ
attestedIn	Papyrus Millingen tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ later manuscript copies of Teaching for King Merikare ⓘ
capitalCity	Herakleopolis Magna NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ surface form: Ancient Egypt
culture	ancient Egyptian culture ⓘ
dynasty	Ninth Dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ Tenth Dynasty of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
fatherOf	Merikare NERFINISHED ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
hasRoyalNameElement	Ra NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasWorkAssociated	Teaching for King Merikare NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalStatus	poorly documented ruler ⓘ traditionally dated to around 21st century BCE ⓘ
knownFrom	administrative documents ⓘ literary sources ⓘ papyrus records ⓘ wisdom literature ⓘ
languageOfSources	Middle Egyptian ⓘ
legacy	example of a moralizing king in Egyptian wisdom literature ⓘ
monumentalEvidence	few or no securely identified monuments ⓘ scarce ⓘ
nameInHieroglyphs	nb-k3w-Rˁ ḫtj NERFINISHED ⓘ
nomen	Khety NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableCharacteristic	known mainly from texts rather than archaeology ⓘ
period	First Intermediate Period of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ early Middle Kingdom of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
politicalContext	rivalry between Herakleopolis and Thebes ⓘ
praenomen	Nebkaure NERFINISHED ⓘ
praenomenMeaning	The Ka of Ra is the Lord ⓘ
regionRuled	Middle Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
reignLocation	Herakleopolitan kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	ancient Egyptian religion ⓘ
rememberedFor	association with political instability ⓘ didactic teachings to his successor ⓘ
roleInText	speaker in Teaching for King Merikare ⓘ
scholarlyDebate	chronological placement uncertain ⓘ exact dynastic position disputed ⓘ
sourceType	secondary literary tradition ⓘ
successor	Merikare NERFINISHED ⓘ
title	King of Upper and Lower Egypt ⓘ Lord of the Two Lands NERFINISHED ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Eloquent Peasant → kingNameVariant → Nebkaure Khety ⓘ

Amenemhat II → throneName → Nebkaure Khety ⓘ

this entity surface form: Nubkaure