Baufra in hieroglyphs | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bau-f-Râ B3.w-f-Rʾ Re is his glory[1] Papyrus Westcar, column 4.18 | |||||||
Ba-ef-Rê B3-f-Rʾ Re is his glory[1] Wadi Hammamat, cartouche name no.5 |
Baufra /bɑːuːfrɑː/ (also read as Bauefre and Ra-bau-ef) is the name of an alleged son of the ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) Khufu from the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. He is known from a story in the Papyrus Westcar and from a rock inscription at Wadi Hammamat. He is neither contemporarily nor archaeologically attested, which makes his historical figure disputable to scholars up to this day.