page_title: Pepi I Meryre
section_title: Consorts
hierarchical_section_title: Pepi I Meryre / Family / Consorts
caption_attribution_description: English: Profile of Ankhnespepy II, wife of Pepy I mother of Merenre Pepy II, from Saqqara, Pyramid complex of Queen Ankhnespepy II, Funerary Temple. Saqqara. Imhotep Museum.
context_page_description: Pepi I Meryre was the third king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling for circa 50 years during the second half of the 24th century BC, toward the end of the Old Kingdom period. Pepi I was the son of his second predecessor Teti, ascending the throne only after the brief and enigmatic reign of the shadowy Userkare. Pepi's mother was queen Iput, who may have been a daughter of Unas, final ruler of the preceding Fifth Dynasty. Pepi, who had at least six queens, was succeeded by son Merenre Nemtyemsaf I with whom he may have share power in a coregency at the very end of his reign. In turn, Merenre was succeeded by Pepi II Neferkare, who might also have been a son of Pepi I. Pepi II was the last great pharaoh of the Old Kingdom period.
  Pepi faced several difficulties during his five decades on the throne, starting with the possible murder of his father and the ensuing reign of Userkare. Later, likely after his twentieth year of reign, Pepi faced a harem conspiracy hatched by one of his queens to place her son as heir to the throne, and possibly yet another conspiracy involving his vizier at the end of his reign.
context_section_description: Six consorts of Pepi I have been identified by Egyptologists.
  Pepi's best attested wives were Ankhesenpepi I and Ankhesenpepi II. 
  Both bore future pharaohs and were daughters of the nomarch of Abydos Khui and his wife Nebet. 
  Further queens are Nubwenet, Inenek-Inti who became a vizier of Pepi, and Mehaa (also called Haaheru). All were buried in pyramids adjacent to that of Pepi. Another consort, Sebwetet, is mentioned on relief fragments from the necropolis surrounding Pepi's pyramid.
  Two more queens have been proposed as Pepi I's consort. First is a queen Nedjeftet, whose name is recorded on  blocks excavated in the necropolis adjacent to Pepi's pyramid. The identification of Nedjeftet as Pepi's consort remains uncertain owing to the lack of inscriptions explicitly naming her husband. Given the location of Nedjeftet's blocks in the necropolis, she may be the queen who was referred to as the queen of the west by the Ancient Egyptians, the owner of a pyramid west of Pepi's. Second is another queen, named Behenu, who was buried in the second largest queen pyramid of the necropolis of Pepi, north of his. She could either be one of his consorts or a wife of Pepi II.
  A final unnamed queen, only referred to by her title "Weret-Yamtes", is known from the inscriptions uncovered in the tomb of Weni, an official serving Pepi. This queen, whose name is purposefully left unmentioned by Weni, conspired against Pepi and was prosecuted when the conspiracy was discovered.
caption: Ankhesenpepi II shown on a relief from her mortuary temple, Imhotep Museum
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