Snéfrou

Snéfrou , is the first king of the Egyptian woman. Manéthon calls it Sôris and gives him twenty-nine years of reign. The Papyrus of Turin counts twenty-four years of them to him. He is the son of Houni and a Meresânkh concubine.

One locates his reign at the neighborhoods of -2575 with -2551/-2550. He marries his half-sister Hétephérès {{Ire}} who will be the mother of Khoufou ( Khéops ) which succeeds to him and another woman, whose name is not known, but of which he will have two children Ka-Néfer and Ânkhhaf.

Genealogy

Titulature

Reign

Snéfrou sends a forwarding of forty vessels towards the Lebanon in order to bring back timber (cedar and fir tree). It makes exploit so effectively the the Sinai that it becomes a local divinity there. Gizeh becomes necropolis royal.

Military operations in Nubie and at the border Libya do not bring back safety and important spoils in cattle. Starting from his reign, God Horus becomes dynastic God.

It is also Snéfrou which created the function of vizier (Tâty as a former Egyptian), charged to manage the country in the name of the king and to count cattle. This load would have been created - well that this function existed before for his/her son the prince Néfermaât, who was to manage in the name of the king.

Burial

During its reign it made build several pyramid S, including two with Dahchour, in the south of Saqqarah:

that of the South, the Pyramid rhomboïdale, pyramid with two slopes undergoing an abrupt change with middle height;
that of North, the red Pyramid, regular pyramid whose angle of slope is constant, preceding the pyramids with smooth faces.

These two pyramids constituted important a complex worshipper.

The recent excavations also allot the to him Pyramide of Seïlah in the Fayoum.

It also completed the Pyramide of Houni, with Meïdoum.

These pyramids will reach the ultimate stage of their evolution to become pyramids with smooth faces.

See also: Amorce=Voir evolution of [[pyramids of Egypt]] in the article, Mastaba

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