Merdjefara in hieroglyphs

The Royal Titulary

From the hieroglyphic records

Throne name

Announced at the coronation and always written in a cartouche. The “official” name of the pharaoh. Also known as the Prenomen.

Throne name

Mer djefa Ra

mr-ḏfꜢ-rꜤ

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ra-U7:r-A-G41:G37

Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions , II, 838:9
Turin King List 9.5
Beckerath, “Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen”, 2nd ed. MÄS 49 (1999). 108-109, 6:T2
Gardiner, The Royal Canon of Turin (1959) VIII:5

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