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Queens Of Egypt (880 words) |
 | Sobeknefru is the first monarch to use the name of the god Sobek beyond that of a 12th dynasty princess. |
| Hers was not a precedent-setting reign, however, for a similar succession had occurred at the end of the 6th dynasty, and tradition records that officials in the 2nd dynasty decided that a woman could hold the royal title. |
| Sobeknefru reigned as a full pharaoh; her statues from the northeastern Nile River delta show her with full royal (king's) regalia and in traditional royal poses. |
| Pyramids of Mazghuna (964 words) |
| The pyramids at Mazghuna known as the Northern and Southern Mazghuna Pyramids, may belong to Sobeknefru (Queen Nefrusebek), the last pharaoh of Egypt's 12th Dynasty and Amenemhet IV, respectively, but no inscriptions bearing their names have been found and their ownership is far from certain. |
| If these pyramids do belong to Sobeknefru and Amenemhet IV, they are evidence of the decline at the end of the 12th Dynasty of Egypt's Middle kingdom. |
| Some grave goods were discovered in this pyramid. These included an alabaster vessel in the form of a trussed duck and three limestone lamps that were found in the small service chamber before the burial chamber, and a small alabaster kohl pot and a piece of glazed steatite left in the inner burial chamber. |
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