Khuit I

For pharaoh Teti's wife, see Khuit.
Khuit in hieroglyphs
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A King's Wife from the Fifth dynasty of Egypt
Possibly a wife of Menkauhor Kaiu
Buried in Saqqara

Khuit I was an Egyptian queen who lived in the mid-5th Dynasty of Egypt.

She was buried in mastaba D 14 at Saqqara.The Austrian Egyptologist Wilfried Seipel has suggested that was the queen of pharaoh Menkauhor Kaiu.[1] Based on the datation of the tombs surrounding Khuit's burial, Seipel argues that she lived during the mid-Fifth Dynasty. Proceeding by elimination, Seipel attributed known queens to each king of the period, which only leaves Menkauhor as a candidate king for her.[2] These arguments are criticized by the French Egyptologist Michel Baud, who observes that pharaohs could have had more than one queen.[3]

Another queen by the name of Meresankh IV is more commonly suggested as the wife of Menkauhor Kaiu and thus may have been a contemporary of Khuit.[4][5]

Khuit held the titles Great one of the hetes-sceptre (wrt-hetes), She who sees Horus and Seth (m33t-hrw-stsh), Great of Praises, King’s Wife, his beloved, Attendant of the Great One, King’s Daughter, and King’s Wife.[6]

Sources

  1. ↑ W. Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary, 2005
  2. ↑ Seipel, Wilfried (1980). Untersuchungen zu den ägyptischen Königinnen der Frühzeit und des alten Reiches: Quellen und historische Einordnung (PhD). University of Hamburg. OCLC 256076594. See p. 214
  3. ↑ Baud, Michel (1999). Famille Royale et pouvoir sous l’Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2 (PDF). Bibliothèque d'étude 126/2 (in French). Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale. ISBN 978-2-72-470250-7. See p. 537 & 484
  4. ↑ Joyce Tyldesley, Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt, Thames and Hudson, 2006
  5. ↑ Dodson, Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004
  6. ↑ W. Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary, 2005
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