Cartouche of King Userkare |
The name of "Userkare" means: "The Soul of Re is Strong" and is shown within a cartouche in picture right. Notable is that he, who usually is left out of most modern lists of kings, is better good for than one would think. Beside the Turin and Abydos king's lists on that point are other records with his name that have survived. Among them is a hand where workers at Qau el-Kebir (قاو الكبير) south of Asyut in middle Egypt are observed. Maybe they were taken with stone corporate for the king's tomb or new monument. Userkare may have been a surviving claimer of the throne from the fifth dynasty and a rival to Teti for accessing the kingship. Since Manethoo claims that Teti was killed by his bodyguards, theories of confederacy have been put modern that Userkare was the world set, but after a short rule was put out of office by the cold king's son Pepi, the next king to be. But there is a possibility that he became pharaoh because the crown prince was to young and left office when the legitimate heir had gave a proper a e to a ruler himself. But in that face he should not have addressed himself king, but he did. No monuments of Userkare's have bee found and his tomb (pyramid?) is perhaps yet to be found. This lack of essential remains is the spine in the theory that he was a supplanter who was overthrown from the leaders over the Nile Valley. Future finds will hopefully bring light to knowledge about Userkare's deeds.