Nitocris

Nitocris
Nitocret
Pharaoh
Predecessor	Merenre Nemtyemsaf II
Successor	Menkare if she is to be identified with Neitiqerty Siptah
Royal titulary Nomen If she is to be identified with Neitiqerty Siptah, then: Neitiqerty
Consort	Merenre Nemtyemsaf II (according to legend)[1]
Father	Pepi II
Mother	Neith
Dynasty	Sixth Dynasty

Nitocris[2] in hieroglyphs
Era: Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BC)

Nitocris (Greek: Νίτωκρις) possibly was the last queen of the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Her name is found in writings long considered as relatively accurate resources: a major chronological documentation of the reigns of the kings of ancient Egypt that was composed in the third-century BC by Manetho, an Ancient Egyptian priest and by the ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, in his Histories (430 BC). She is thought to be the daughter of Pepi II and Neith and to be the sister of Merenre Nemtyemsaf II.^[2]

Her historicity has been questioned by some with speculation that, if she was a historical ruler, she may have been a regent. Another view, by the Egyptologist Kim Ryholt, argues that Nitocris is legendary and derives from the historical king Neitiqerty Siptah who succeeded Nitocris's brother, Merenre Nemtyemsaf II, at the transition between the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period.

Manetho claimed she built the "third pyramid" at Giza. Modern historians and archaeologists attribute that pyramid to a king of the Fourth Dynasty, Menkaure.