It is assumed that the Northern Mazghuna pyramid was intended for her, though this assignment is speculative with no firm evidence to confirm it.

[5] However, two kings of the Thirteenth Dynasty, Sobekhotep I and Sonbef, have been speculated to be sons of his based on their shared nomen 'Amenemhat'.

[25] If this is the case, Sobekneferu may have taken the throne after Amenemhat IV's death, because she viewed those potential offspring of late king as illegitimate.

[26] Sobekneferu was the first confirmed woman to rule Egypt in her own right as 'female king' and the first to adopt the full royal titulary.

[29] Kara Cooney views ancient Egypt as unique in allowing women to acquire formal – and absolute – power.

She posits that women were elevated to the throne during crises to guide the civilization and maintain social order.

[31] In the Fifth Dynasty, Setibhor may have been a female king regnant based on the manner her monuments were targeted for destruction.

[44] Amenemhat III, in contrast, presided over a peaceful Egypt that consisted of monumental constructions, the development of Faiyum, numerous mining expeditions, and the building of two pyramids at Dahshur and at Hawara.

[48] Her death brought a close to the Twelfth Dynasty[49][50] and began the Second Intermediate Period spanning the following two centuries.

[36] Stephen Quirke proposed, based on the numerosity of kingships and brevity of their rule, that a rotating succession of kings from Egypt's most powerful families took the throne.

[56] Kim Ryholt contends that the Fourteenth Dynasty instead arose in the Nile Delta at the end of Sobekneferu's reign as a rival to the Thirteenth.

[48] In Nubia, a graffito in the fortress of Kumma records the height of the Nile inundation at 1.83 m (6 ft) during her third regnal year.

[65] Three basalt statues of the female king were found in Tell ed-Dab'a;[66] two depict her in a seated posture, another shows her kneeling.

It fits on top of the lower part of a seated statuette discovered at Semna which bears the royal symbol smꜣ tꜣwy on the side of the throne.

Contemporary sources from her reign show that Sobekneferu adopted only the 'King's Daughter' title, which further supports this hypothesis.

It reads 'Beloved of Dḥdḥt the good god Nỉ-mꜣꜥt-rꜥ [Amenemhat III] given [...] * Daughter of Re, Sobekneferu lord of Shedet, given all life'.

[76] In Israel, a possible reference to Sobekneferu before she became a ruler is found on the base of a statue discovered in Gezer.

[73][77] A damaged statuette (MET 65.59.1) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been suggested to represent Sobekneferu, though this assignment is unverified.

[70] The schist bust depicts a woman in a wig, wearing a crown composed of a uraeus cobra and two vultures with outstretched wings which is of unknown iconography, and the ḥb-sd cloak.

[48][78] A headless black basalt or granite sphinx discovered by Édouard Naville in Qantir bearing a damaged inscription is also assigned to Sobekneferu.

[87][88] On a funerary stela from Abydos, now in Marseille, there is mention of a storeroom administrator of Sobekneferu named Heby.

There is, however, no clear evidence to confirm this assignment[91][92] and the pyramid may date to a period well after the end of the Twelfth Dynasty.