Chuit (queen)

Chuit was a queen of the ancient Egyptian 6th Dynasty . She was the wife of Pharaoh Teti II. No children from this marriage are known.

For Chuit was north grave conditioning her husband a queens pyramid built. The building has a side length of 21 m and was discovered by Victor Loret in 1898 . For a long time it was disputed whether this tomb was actually a pyramid. Only new excavations, which began in 1995 under the direction of Zahi Hawass , could confirm this.

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. 538-539 ( 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.
Miroslav Verner : The pyramids (= rororo non-fiction book. Volume 60890). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60890-1 , p. 386.

personal data
SURNAME	Chuit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Queen of the ancient Egyptian 6th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	around 24th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	around 24th century BC Chr.