King Pepy I (2332-2283)

Alabaster vessel show the cartouche name of Pepy I

Late generations venerated Pepy I as one of the good rulers of the Old Kingdom. It is probable that as the son of Queen Iput, he delivered the goods Teti, although another king Usekare comes out to have ruled in brief for a year, perhaps while Iput acted as compelling for her son. Pepy I married 2 sisters who were both discovered Meryreankhnes; one gone the mother of the next king, Merenre, while the second sister developed Pepy II who finally succeeded Merenre. It is in all probability that King Pepy I married the 2nd queen late in his reign, as Pepy II was only a child when he followed to the throne. The sisters came from a non-royal background; they were the daughters of Khui, a stiff hereditary governor of the Thinite nome, and their brother, Djau, became vizier. Earlier custom had involved that the king should marry his hold full- or half-sister, but it was now more important to gain the hold of the powerful rustic nobility.

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.

King Userkare (Unknown-2382)

Cartouche of King Userkare

King Userkare is conceived to be the advocator of the group that, leastwise checking to Manetho, murdered Teti. He is mentioned in some king-lists. In the Turin King-list, there is a lacuna between Teti and Pepi I, big enough to have fitted an entering about Userkare. The fact that he is mentioned in several king-lists leads to assume that he was not considered an usurper or an illegitimate king, though. He leastways started or guaranteed some larger building projects, as showed by an inscription observing a workforce. It is not experienced how Userkare's reign ended. If indeed he belonged the party that had Teti cold, than the fact that he was succeeded by Pepi I, a son of Teti, at least indicates that his coup was not successful for long. There has been no pyramid-complex that has been discovered as his.

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.

Pyramid of Iput I

The Pyramid of Iput I

Queen Iput I was the principle queen of King Teti and the mother of his successor, Pepi I. The pyramid of queen Iput I was discovered in the getting of the 20th century. 90 meters northeast of Teti's pyramid Has none valley temple, no causeway, and no cult pyramid The mortuary temple is on the eastern face of the pyramid with an unique floorplan. It was introduced from Teti's pyramid to the south, with 4 limestone pillars and then an lobby with two pillars. An offering hol and niches for statues, which had a false door on the wall lining the pyramid, in look of which was a pink granite change. This is not the only mortuary temple for this queen. Another has been found in Coptos in southwest Egypt. Pyramid has a three step core and an catch on the  north. The pyramid has a ranked shaft from the second layer of the pyramid to the core. It is conceived that the pyramid was originally intended to be a mastaba and later changed into a  pyramid. The inside mastaba section is full that is left. A limestone keeping wall surrounds the full complex. A limestone sarcophagus was found, as long with a cedar coffin and the bones of a middle-aged woman. Other items take canopic jars, gold bracelet, a necklace, alabaster headrestr, a pill, copper utensils. Five canopic jars were got  only four are usual, so the fifth is credibly from another burying.

Pyramid of Khuit

The Pyramid of Khuit was discovered in 1898 by Loret. It was considered to be a mastaba until late. Hawass excaved the site in 1995 and official that it was so a small pyramid. Next to Ipu Is pyramid, north of Tetis complex Mortuary temple to the east wall, although little has been excavated. A sarcophagus and well-built inhumation chamber have been found Original entrance on the northwest in the floor of the courtyard, accessing along coming passage to the burial chamber and to the east the memory chamber.

Teti (2345-2333)

Cartouche of king Teti

The 5th and 6th Dynasties are broken by events which remain apart, but the conveyance of power to King Teti, the first pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty, does not appear to have took a major upheaval or struggle. Indeed, the titles borne by his great queen, Iput, indicate that she carried the royal line from one dynastic family to the next, and it is probable that she was a daughter of Unas, the last king of the Fifth Dynasty. Little further evidence remains of Tetis reign, although foreign contacts were apparently continued with Byblos, Syria and Nubia. The country was stable and affluent and the courtiers kept to build fine tombs around the kings pyramid at Saqqara; one particularly impressive tomb belonged to the vizier Mereruka, who was also the king's son-in-law.

The pyramid was stiff in style; on the inside walls the inscriptions provide a survival of magico-religious texts, which were intended to see the kings safe passage into the next domain and his credence there by the gods. Nearby, he built a pyramid for 2 of his queens, Iput and Khuit. Matching to Manetho, Teti was hit by his escort, although there is no historical corroboration of this argument. He was briefly won by a king named Userkare, and then by Pepy I, his son by Queen Iput.