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.
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 significant lacuna in this document affects most kings of the 7th/8th Dynasty.
No attestation is firmly attributable to Neferkare Khendu beyond the Abydos king list. However, a cylinder seal inscribed with the cartouche Ḫndy, “Khendy”, was tentatively attributed to him by the egyptologist Henri Frankfort in 1926. Modern scholarship has shown that the seal is most likely to read “Khamudi”, the name of the last king of the Hyksos and 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, catalogue number UC 11616.
