Alabaster vessel show the cartouche name of Pepy I |
During this reign, Wenia man of common origin rose to gone a judge, and his inscription from Abydos offers details of the events of his career: as jurist, he heard in private the cases of conspiracy that had happened in the royal harem, one of which implicated a queen of Pepy I. He besides mentions his role in dealing with the incursions by the Beduin on Egypt's north-eastern frontier, indicating that pressures were already constructing up in that region. Later, such harrassment would give to the fall of the Old Kingdom.
King Pepy I constructed a pyramid complex a short distance from Saqqara and although the temple has not been turned up, the pyramid is essential because here, in 1881, Maspero first discovered the prove that the interior walls of the pyramids of the later Old Kingdom were inscribed with the Pyramid Texts. These religious turns, which take place in several pyramids, incorporate the earliest known body of religious and magical texts from ancient Egypt. Other leading building natural actions of the reign included the kings sanctuary at Bubastis in the Delta; also during his rule expeditions were sent to Nubia and Sinai. Towards the end of his reign, it is possible that the king connected his elder son Merenre with him on the throne, leaving an early model of co-regency.