King Unas

Unas

Last king of the Fifth Dynasty (2450-2300 BC)

Horus name: Wadj-tawy
Nebty name: Wadj-em-nebty
Golden Falcon name: Bik-nub-wadj
Nomen: Unas

Burial place: Pyramid in Saqqara (south of the Djoser complex) called Nefer-isut-Unas. It is the first pyramid with Pyramid Texts.

Attestations in the Petrie Museum:

Fragment of a calcite vessel, UC 13258

Further Attestations:

Rock inscription near Aswan (Petrie 1888: pl. 12, no. 312; Sethe 1933: 69)
Calcite vessel in Paris, Louvre E. 32372 (New York 1999: 361, no. 123)
Calcite vessel found at Elephantine (Kaiser et al.1999: 88)
Several objects found at Byblos (Dunand 1939: 267-268, 278)
In the biography of Sabu in his tomb at Saqqara (Sethe 1933: 81)
In the biography of Gemni in his tomb at Saqqara (Sethe 1933: 194)

Bibliography:

Petrie 1925a: 93-96 (list of sources)
Labrousse/Lauer/Leclant 1977 (publication of the mortuary temple near the king's pyramid)
Labrousse/Moussa 1996 (publication of the valley temple of the king's pyramid)
Munro 1993 (the excavation report on two mastabas of the queens of the king, with an introduction to historical problems concerning Unas and his reign)