Iput II.

Iput II was a queen of the ancient Egyptian 6th dynasty . She was the wife of Pharaoh Pepi II. No children from this marriage are known.

tomb

Redrawing of the annal stone of Saqqara-South, which was converted into the sarcophagus lid of Anchenespepi IV, with heavily damaged information on the reigns of the kings of the 6th Dynasty

A queen pyramid was built for Iput II to the northwest of her husband's tomb . The building has a side length of 22 m and was originally 15.8 m high, but is now almost completely destroyed. The east and south sides are framed by a mortuary temple . A makeshift burial for Queen Anchenespepi IV was set up in one of his storerooms . At the southeast corner of the tomb there is a small cult pyramid . The sarcophagus lid of Anchenespepi IV is an outstanding find : an inscription is engraved on it, which at the time of discovery was too illegible to decipher. In the meantime, however, this has been achieved with modern photo technology, and it turned out that the inscription contains remnants of the royal annals of the 6th dynasty.

literature

Michel Baud : Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2 (= Bibliothèque d'Étude. Volume 126/2). Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 1999, ISBN 2-7247-0250-6 , pp. 412–413 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, ISBN 977-424-878-3 , pp. 70-78.
Gustave Jéquier : Les pyramides des reines Neit et Apouit (= Fouilles à Saqqarah. ). Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Cairo 1933 ( online ).
Miroslav Verner : The pyramids (= rororo non-fiction book. Volume 60890). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60890-1 , pp. 407-408.

personal data
SURNAME	Iput II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Queen of the ancient Egyptian 6th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	23rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	22nd century BC Chr.