Iput
- About the river in Belarus and Russia see Iput River. For the late 6th dynasty queen, wife of Pepi I see Iput II.
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Iput was a daughter of King Unas, the last king of Fifth dynasty of Egypt. She married Teti, the first Pharaoh of the Sixth dynasty of Egypt. Their son was Pepi I Meryre.[2]
Life
Iput I was a daughter of the fifth dynasty King Unas. She married King Teti who was the first king of the Sixth dynasty of Egypt. Their only recorded son is King Pepi I. Iput is depicted with her son Pepi I on a decree-stela from Koptos.[2] The skeletal remains found at her pyramid show she died a middle aged woman. [3]
Titles of Iput I
Iput I held several titles[3] due to the fact that she was the daughter of a king: Daughter of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt (s3t-niswt-biti), King’s Daughter of his body (s3t-niswt-nt-kht.f), God’s Daughter (s3t-ntr), This God’s Daughter (s3t-ntr-wt).
Other titles are due to the fact that she was married to a pharaoh: King’s Wife, his beloved (hmt-nisw meryt.f), Companion of Horus (smrt-hrw), Great one of the hetes-sceptre (wrt-hetes), She who sees Horus and Seth (m33t-hrw-stsh), and Great of Praises (wrt-hzwt).[3]
Iput gained even more titles when her son Pepi I took the throne: King’s Mother (mwt-niswt), Mother of the Dual King (mwt-niswt-biti) and King’s Mother of the pyramid Mennefer-Pepy (mwt-niswt-mn-nfr-ppy).[3]
Burial
Iput was buried in Saqqara, in a pyramid near that of Teti. The pyramids of Iput and Khuit were discovered between July 1897 and February 1989 by Victor Loret.[4]
The burial chamber contained a limestone sarcophagus, and a cedar coffin. Remains of a middle aged woman were found. Some of her funerary equipment has survived. These include canopic vessels, a headrest, and a gold bracelet.[5] Her remains are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The gold bracelet was found on Queen Iput's arm. The chamber further contained several vessels including polished red pottery and a rock crystal cup. Model vessels and tools were included in the burial as well. Some of these had originally been covered in gold.[3]
References
- ^ Tyldesley, Joyce. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006. ISBN 0-500-05145-3
- ^ a b Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. ISBN 0-500-05128-3
- ^ a b c d e Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, ISBN 978-0954721893
- ^ Lauer, Jean Phillipe. Saqqara: The Royal Cemetery of Memphis, Excavations and Discoveries since 1850. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1976. ISBN 0-684-14551-0
- ^ Verner, Miroslav. The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments. Grove Press. 2001 (1997). ISBN 0-8021-3935-3