Word: sneferuw
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...Reisner, who will leave from New York on the S. S. Albania, expects to arrive in Egypt early in July. No plans have yet been made for resuming work on the intact tomb of the Sneferuw period discovered at Giza by the expedition last March and no decision can be reached until Dr. Reisner has arrived at the Harvard Camp at the Pyramids...
...Reisner of the Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition has been careful to point out that the inscription: "Lord-of-the-Two-Crowns, Sneferuw, the Horns Neb Ma'at," which was discovered on the gold mat of the new tomb at Giza does not apply at all to the person buried there. The point is a nice one and well taken. Sneferuw probably was either a term of endearment or a bill of lading. It is altogether too colloquial and common a word to take its place beside the great unpronounceable of Egyptian anthology...
...that time the man had been dead some four or five years, and it seemed advisable to complete his coffin as soon as possible. The head undertaker ordered them to put "Sneferuw," or any old name, on the gold mat, and so it was done. It didn't matter much anyway...
Shortly after this, just before the tomb was finally sealed to await Dr. Reisner's arrival in Egypt, the New York Times published a Cairo dispatch to the London Times which stated as the opinion of an expert geologist that the tomb was that of Sneferuw...
...Before sealing the new tomb discovered at Giza by the Harvard-Boston Expedition, the inscription on the gold mat was clearly read as follows: 'Lord-of-two-crowns Sneferuw, the Horus Neb-Ma'at.' The name of the person buried in the coffin remains unknown. The presence of the name of Sneferuw on the mat does not prove that this king was buried in the tomb, but only that the burial was made in his reign. The conclusion that the tomb is not that of Sneferuw or Cheops is not affected by the new evidence...