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| Pharaoh of Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 2345–2333 BC, 6th Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Unas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Userkare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horus, who satisfies (pacifies?) the two lands
Who satisfies the two ladies
The golden Horus who unites
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| Burial | Pyramid of Teti | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Teti was the first Pharaoh of the Sixth dynasty of Egypt. He is also less commonly known as Othoes. He reigned from around 2345 to 2333 BC and is buried at Saqqara, however the exact length of his reign has been destroyed on the Turin King List, but is believed to have been about 12 years. Queen Iput, his wife, was probably the daughter of King Unas, the last king of the Fifth dynasty.
During Teti's reign high officials were beginning to build funerary monuments that rivaled that of the Pharaoh. For example, his chancellor built a large mastaba consisting of 32 rooms, all richly carved. This is considered a sign that wealth was being transferred from the central court to the officials, a slow process that culminated in the end to the Old Kingdom.
He may have been assassinated by the usurper Userkare; Manetho states that he was murdered by his palace bodyguards in a harem plot. He was buried in the royal necropolis at Saqqara. His pyramid complex is associated with the mastabas of officials from his reign. According to Anthony Spalinger, Teti's Highest date is his Year after the 6th Count 3rd Month of Summer day lost (Year 12 if the count was biannual) from Hatnub Graffito No.1.[1] This information is confirmed by the South Saqqara Stone Annal document from Pepi II's reign which gives him a reign of around 12 years.
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3rd "subsidiary" pyramid to Teti's tomb
Teti's mother was the Queen Sesheshet, who was instrumental in her son's accession to the throne and a reconciling of two warring factions of the royal family.[2]
Sesheshet lived between 2323 BC to 2291 BC. Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, announced, on November 11, 2008, that she was entombed, in a 4,300-year-old headless 5 metre (16-foot-tall) Saqqara most complete subsidiary pyramid. This is the 118th pyramid discovered thus far in Egypt, the largest portion of its 2 metres wide beautiful casing was built with a superstructure 5 metres high. It originally reached 14 metres, with sides 22 metres long.[3][4]
Once 5 stories tall, it lay beneath 23 feet (7 meters) of sand, a small shrine and mud-brick walls from later periods. The 3rd known "subsidiary" pyramid to Teti's tomb, was originally 46 feet (14 meters) tall and 72 feet (22 meters) square at its base, due to its walls having stood at a 51-degree angle. Buried next to the Saqqara Step Pyramid, its base lies 65 feet underground and is believed to have been 50 feet tall when it was built.[5][6][7]
See also
References
- ^ Anthony Spalinger, "Dated Texts of the Old Kingdom," SAK 21, (1994), p.303
- ^ "Egypt: 4,300-year-old pyramid discovered". CNN.com. CNN. 2008-11-11. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/11/11/egypt.pyramid.discovery.ap/index.html. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
- ^ ph.news.yahoo.com, 4,300-year-old pyramid discovered in Egypt
- ^ africa.reuters.com, Egypt says has found pyramid built for ancient queen
- ^ sfgate.com, Under tons of sand, a treasure of history
- ^ news.nationalgeographic.com, New Pyramid Found in Egypt: 4,300-Year-Old Queen's Tomb
- ^ euronews.net, Pyramid find to shed light on last pharoah dynasty
Further reading
- Naguib Kanawati, Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I, Routledge (2002), ISBN 0-415-27107-X.
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