Sneferu [SEP] sister
, the Cairo Annals Stone denotes that his mother may have been a woman named Meresankh.
Hetepheres I was Sneferu's main wife and the mother of Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau.
Succession and family Children.
Sons of Sneferu:
- Khufu – son of Sneferu and Hetepheres I, successor to Sneferu.
- Ankhhaf – "King's Son of his Body", King's vizier (under his nephew Khafre). Buried in G 7510. A famous bust of Ankhhaf
Nefertkau I
Nefertkau I was a 4th dynasty princess of ancient Egypt. She was the eldest daughter of King Sneferu and hence a half-sister to King Khufu. She was the mother of Nefermaat II and the grandmother of Sneferukhaf.
Nefertkau is explicitly said to be a daughter of Sneferu in inscriptions from the tomb of her son and her grandson. Kurt Heinrich Sethe argued from the inscription in Nefermaat’s tomb that Nefertkau had married her own father and that Nefermaat was Sneferu’s son. George Andrew Reisner argued against this