Teti

First king of the Sixth Dynasty (2300-2181 BC)

Attestations in the Petrie Museum:

• Calcite vase from Abydos UC 16423
  
  
• fragment with pyramid texts from his pyramid UC 14539

Further Attestations:

• Decree of the king found at Abydos, now in the British Museum (Sethe 1933: 207-208)
• Temple (Hwt-kA) at Bubastis (el-Sawi 1979: 75-76, fig. 164-167)
• Calcite sistrum, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 26.7.1450 (New York 1999: 450-451, no. 182)
• Object found at Byblos (Dunand 1939: 258)
• Biography of Sabu in his tomb at Saqqara (Sethe 1933: 82-83)
• Biography of an unknown person; the fragment is now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Sethe 1933: 86)
• Biography of Weni, from his tomb at Abydos (Sethe 1933: 98)
• Biography of Gemni in his tomb at Saqqara (Sethe 1933: 194)
• Biography of Qar in his tomb at Edfu (Sethe 1933: 253)

Bibliography:

• Petrie 1925a: 100-101 (list of sources then known)
• Stadelmann 1994 (on king Teti and the beginning of the Sixth Dynasty)

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