Sesheshet
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Sesheshet, occasionally known as Sesh, was the mother of King Teti, the first and founding king of the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She was instrumental in enabling her son to gain the throne and reconciling two warring factions of the royal family.
Key facts
- Person.name
- SesheshetSš sš.t
- Person.burial_place
- Saqqara, Egypt
- Person.children
- Teti
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ancient Egypt
- Child
- Teti
- Occupation
- monarch
- Family
- Sixth Dynasty of Egypt
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- date of birth
- 2500-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Family
- Pyramid discovery
- References
- External links
Sesheshet, occasionally known as Sesh, was the mother of King Teti, the first and founding king of the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She was instrumental in enabling her son to gain the throne and reconciling two warring factions of the royal family.
In 2008, archeologists discovered what is believed to have been her pyramid.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sesheshet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.