Sesheshet
Queen Sescheschet (also Seschseschet ) was the mother of Pharaoh Teti II, the founder and first pharaoh of the 6th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. After Hartwig Altenmüller she was married to a Schepsipuptah. As another son of this marriage he suspects a Mehu. Sescheschets son Teti owed her that he could win the throne by reconciling two warring factions within the royal family. During the transition to the new dynasty there was no break in the genealogical line or in the location of the seat of government of the predecessor. However, it came in the 6th dynasty to significant cultural achievements that justify the demarcation of the preceded dynasties.
Tomb
November 8, 2008 expressed Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, the view that Sescheschet newly discovered in one, 4300 years old, 5 -meter-high pyramid at Saqqara was buried. Archaeological evidence are still lacking. Hawass said that this pyramid was one of the best preserved pyramids known side. The grave increases the number of discovered so far in Egypt pyramids on 118 The Pyramid found is close to two other pyramids, which are probably the two women of Teti II, Iput I and Chuit.
End of November 2008 the archaeologists began to penetrate into the interior of the pyramid. In January 2009, the first details of the grave chamber were known. This seems to have been long since been looted by grave robbers partially, but a sarcophagus was discovered, which still contained the remains of a burial. Skull, leg and pelvic bones were found in it, some of which were still bandaged, further found the excavators golden finger sleeves and some vessels. In the absence of written documents but can not be clearly confirmed so far is that it is the funeral of Queen Sescheschet.
Evidence from a later period
Even 800 years after her death, in the 16th century BC, the memory of the Egyptians to Sescheschet seems to have been not entirely extinguished, because at that time ( the early 18th dynasty ) called her name in the medical Ebers Papyrus. The name of the Queen showed up here in the short form Sesch on and it is designated as the mother of Teti. The papyrus lists at the appropriate point ( eb 468, 66.15 to 66.18 ) on a prescription hair loss and called Sescheschet as its supposed author.