| Neferkare Khendu | |
| Alt Name: | Neferkare IV |
| Prenomen: | Neferkare Khendu nfr k3 rˁ ḫndw Perfect is the Ka of Ra, he who treads |
| Prenomen Hiero: | |
| Reign: | Unknown |
| Predecessor: | Djedkare Shemai? |
| Successor: | Merenhor? |
| Dynasty: | Eighth Dynasty? |
Neferkare Khendu (also Neferkare IV) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Eighth Dynasty during the early First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC). According to the Egyptologists Kim Ryholt, Jürgen von Beckerath and Darrell Baker he was the sixth king of the Eighth Dynasty.[1] [2] [3]
Neferkare Khendu's name is attested on the Abydos King List (number 45), a king list dating to the Ramesside-era, and is absent from the Turin canon as a large lacuna in this document affects most kings of the 7th/8th Dynasty.[1]
No attestation is firmly attributable to Neferkare Khendu beyond the Abydos king list, although a cylinder seal inscribed with the cartouche Ḫndy, "Khendy", has been tentatively attributed to him by the egyptologist Henri Frankfort in 1926.[2] [4] [5] Modern scholarship has shown however that the cartouche on the seal is most likely to read "Khamudi", name of the last king of the Hyksos, and furthermore that this cartouche was inserted on the seal as a space filler rather than as an explicit reference to this king. The seal is now in the Petrie Museum, catalog number UC 11616.[6]