Presented to Dr/ Mai Hossny

1st year tourism studies English

Section: Group A
Subject : King Teti
By :

 Adhm sayed abd-almohsen ewis

 Alaa maher abo-almagd saad
 Basma hesham salah-eldin aamer
 Ahmed abed gad-elhak khalaf
 Ganna Ibrahim mahmoud fathallah
 Sandra hosam hosny awad

Contents :

 Introduction about the king

 King’s wives (Iput I,Khuit)
 King’s children (userkare, pepi I)
 King’s pyramid (including wives’ and sons’
pyramids)
 King Teti

“teti”

A possible genealogical starting point for the 6th dynasty is

provided by rather unlikely source : a remedy against baldness
in the ebers medical papyrus it mentions one seshesh(et) as
mother of King Teti , the same name borne by the 6th dynastic
founder , teti less commonly known as othoes , read as tata and
pronounced atat or athath , he is buried at Saqqara the exact
length of his reing has been destroyed on the turin king list but
is believed to have been about 12 years (2345-2333 B.C), he is
believed to may have been assassinated by one of his
bodyguards.
 “Teti’s pyramid”

The Pyramid of Teti is a smooth-sided pyramid situated

in the pyramid field at Saqqara in Egypt. It is historically
the second known pyramid containing pyramid texts.
Excavations have revealed a satellite pyramid, two
pyramids of queens accompanied by cult structures, and a
funerary temple. The pyramid was opened by Gaston
Maspero in 1882 and the complex explored during several
campaigns ranging from 1907 to 1965, It was originally
called Teti's Places Are Enduring. The preservation above
ground is very poor, and it now resembles a small hill.
Below ground the chambers and corridors are very well
preserved
Teti had several wives:
 Iput, the daughter of Unas, the last king of the Fifth
dynasty. Iput was the mother of Pepi I.


 Khuit, who may have been the mother

of Userkare (according to Jonosi and Callender)[1]


 Weret-Imtes? This queen is mentioned in the

autobiography of Wenis. It may be a reference to the
title of the queen instead of her personal name. She was
involved in a harem plot to overthrow Pepi, but
apparently was caught before she succeeded. In the
tomb of the official Wenis there is mention of “a secret
charge in the royal harem against the Great of Sceptre”.
According to N. Kanawati, Teti had at least nine
daughters, by a number of wives, and the fact that they
were named after his mother, Sesheshet, allows
researchers to trace his family. At least three princesses
bearing the name Seshseshet are designated as "king’s
eldest daughter", meaning that there were at least three
different queens. It seems that there was a tenth one,
born of a fourth queen as she is also designated as
"king’s eldest daughter"
 “Userkare's cartouche on the Abydos king list”

 There is evidence of another son Userkare, Khuit who

may have been his mother is named on a block from
Pepi’s pyramid in Saqqara. He was the second king of
the Sixth dynasty, he ruled after his father king Teti
reigning briefly from one to five years in the late twenty
fourth to early twenty third century BC Userkares
relation to his predecessor Teti and successor Pepi I is
unknown and his reign remains enigmatic. Although he
is attested in historical sources, Userkare is completely
absent from the tomb of the Egyptian officials who
lived during his reign.
 Given the scarcity of documents pertaining to Userkare,
his relations to his predecessor and successor are
largely uncertain and Egyptologists have proposed a
number of hypotheses regarding his identity and reign.
These fall broadly into two contradictory scenarios: one
that sees Userkare as a legitimate ruler or regent,[31]
while the other perceives Userkare as an usurper,
possibly responsible for the murder of his predecessor
Teti.

 The location of the tomb of Userkare has not yet been

identified. The brevity of his reign implies that the tomb
was probably unfinished at his death, making modern
identification difficult, Since Userkare was a Sixth
Dynasty pharaoh, his tomb was presumably planned to
be a pyramid. A possible vindication of this hypothesis
is the copper mallet mentioning a team of paid workers
from the nome of Wadjet. These workers were likely
involved in an important building project, likely to be
Userkare's pyramid.
 Two hypotheses for the location of Userkare's pyramid
have been put forth. The Egyptologist Vassil Dobrev
proposed that Userkare's pyramid is located in the area
of Saqqara South known today as Tabbet al-Guesh,
north-west of the mortuary complex of Pepi I. Indeed, a
large necropolis of Sixth Dynasty administration
officials is found there, which according to Dobrev,
hints at the nearby presence of a royal pyramid, The
astrophysicist Giulio Magli believes instead that the
pyramid of Userkare is to be found midway between
those of Pepi I and Merenre Nemtyemsaf I, at a place
that would make the three pyramids form a line parallel
to the one formed by the pyramids of Sekhemkhet,
Unas, Djoser, Userkaf and Teti to the North.

 Finding his tomb was one of the major aims of modern

archaeologists and historians. Moreover, they believed
that the walls of his burial might contain some copies of
the texts of pyramids. In fact, the missing pyramid of
the obscure pharaoh could now lie in an obscure area of
Saqqara, according to the latest discovery of the tomb.
In fact, all the monuments seem to be connected
through a pattern of diagonally invisible lines
 From his wife Iput he had Pharaoh Pepi I he ruled at a
very young age, his reign started from 2332-2287 BC,
probably 48 to 49 years but not confirmed by the Turin
King List which apparently assigns him 44 years. He
was the third king of the Sixth dynasty, Userkare was
his predecessor, his first throne name was Neferdjahor,
he died at 2287 BC, he was buried in a Pyramid in
south Saqqara. His wives were Ankhesenpepi I,
Ankhesenpepi II,(Ankhensenpeip I’s sister) Meritites
IV ,Nubwenet and Inenek-Inti and his successors were
Nemtyemsaf, Pepi II, Hornetjerkhet, Tetiankh, Neith,
Iput.

“Pepi I”

 a noble from Abydos and Lady Nebet, made vizier of

Upper Egypt, Pepi later made their brother, Djau, a
vizier as well. The two sisters' influence was extensive,
with both sisters bearing sons who were later to become
pharaohs.
PEPI I

 Pepi I's reign was marked by aggressive expansion into

Nubia, the spread of trade to far-flung areas such as
Lebanon and the Somali coast, but also the growing
power of the nobility. One of the king's officials named
Weni fought in Asia on his behalf. Pepi's mortuary
complex, Mennefer Pepy, eventually became the name
for the entire city of Memphis after the 18th Dynasty

 Two copper statues of Pepi I and his son Merenre were

found at Hierakonpolis
 “Mortuary complex of Pepi I”

 The mortuary complex of Pepi I is situated in the

southern archaeological complex of Saqqara, Egypt.
It was excavated in the 1960s by the French
Archaeological Mission of Saqqara (MafS) which, all
around the main pharaoh's pyramid, discovered about
ten new pyramids for the queens and family of this
pharaoh.[1] Several have Pyramid Texts
(Akhenespepy II, Behenou, Reherichefnakht)
 The core was made of small, locally quarried stone
and debris fill which was clad in a layer of white
limestone. The limestone has since been taken,
exposing the core which has slumped. The inner
chambers followed the same plan as previous 5th
Dynasty pyramids, they were formed in a 'pit and
ramp' and the pyramid was built above.
 “Queen Sesheshet’s tomb”

• He named his daughters after his mother Seshseshet.

• Seshseshet, whose beautiful name was
Waatetkhéthor, married to Vizier Mereruka, in whose
mastaba she has a chapel. She is designated as
"king’s eldest daughter of his body". She may have
been the eldest daughter of Iput.
• Seshseshet with the beautiful name of Idut, "king’s
daughter of his body", who died very young at the
beginning of her father’s reign and was buried in the
mastaba of Vizier Ihy.
• Seshseshet Nubkhetnebty, "king’s daughter of his
body", wife of Vizier Kagemni, represented in her
husband’s mastaba. She was maybe also born of Iput.
• Seshseshet, also called Sathor, married to Isi, resident
governor at Edfu and also titled vizier. She also
would have been born of Iput I.
• Seshseshet, with the beautiful name of Sheshit, king’s
eldest daughter of his body and wife of the overseer
 of the great court Neferseshemptah, and is depicted in
her husband’s mastaba. As she is an eldest daughter
of the king, she cannot be born of the same mother as
Waatkhetethor and therefore may have been a
daughter of Queen Khuit.
• Seshseshet also called Sheshti, "king’s daughter of
his body", married to the keeper of the head
ornaments Shepsipuptah, and depicted in her
husband’s mastaba.
• Seshseshet with the beautiful name of Merout,
entitled "king’s eldest daughter" but without the
addition "of his body" and therefore born of a third,
maybe a minor queen, and married to Ptahemhat.
• Seshseshet, wife of Remni, "sole companion" and
overseer of the department of the palace guard.
• Seshseshet, married to Pepyankh Senior of Meir.

• The so-called "Queen of the West Pyramid" in King

Pepy I cemetery. She is called "king’s eldest daughter
of his body" and king's wife of Meryre (the name of
Pepy I). Therefore, she is a wife of Pepi and most
certainly his half-sister.
Pyramid of sesheshet:
• On November 8, 2008, Egypt's chief archaeologist,
Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme
Council of Antiquities (SCA), announced that
Sesheshet was entombed in a 4,300-year-old, topless
pyramid at Saqqara

• The pyramid of Sesheshet lies near two other

pyramids which belong to Unas's two wives, Nebet
and Khenut. Archeologists entered the pyramid on
January 8, 2009. The remains of what are thought to
be Sesheshet were found in the sarcophagus of the
tomb. The mummy was found wrapped in cloth in the
22-metre long and four-metre wide chamber. Even
though the archaeologists didn’t find the name of the
queen in hieroglyphics, there is evidence to suggest
that the mummy was the mother of the Sixth Dynasty
ruler Teti, Hawass said in the statement. "It is
believed that these remains belong to Queen
Sesheshet, especially because the pyramid was not
built for worship but it was a burial pyramid," he
said.