{{Short description|Ancient Egyptian queen consort}} {{for multi|the river|Iput (river)|the late 6th dynasty queen, wife of Pepi I|Iput II}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Iput I<br>{{center|<hiero>i-p-w-t</hiero>}} | succession = Queen consort of Egypt | reign = c. 2360 BC | regent = Teti | reg-type = King | birth_date = c. 2375 BC | death_date = c. 2325 BC (aged c. 50) | burial_place = Badrashin, Giza, Egypt | consort = yes | spouse = Teti | issue = {{plainlist| *Pepi I *Nebkauhor *Seshseshet *Seshseshet *Seshseshet *Seshseshet }} }}
'''Iput I''' ({{Circa}} 2375 BC – {{Circa}} 2325 BC)<ref name="WG" /> was a queen of ancient Egypt and a daughter of King Unas, the last king of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. She married Teti, the first King of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt. Their son was Pepi I.<ref name="DH">Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. {{ISBN|0-500-05128-3}}</ref> She possibly ruled as regent for her son Pepi I.<ref>Tyldesley, Joyce (2006). Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson. p. 57. {{ISBN|0-500-05145-3}}.</ref>
==Life== Iput may have been a daughter of the Fifth Dynasty King Unas. Her mother was Nebet or Khenut. She married King Teti, who was the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt. Their son was King Pepi I. Iput is depicted with her son Pepi on a decree-stela from Koptos.<ref name="DH"/> The skeletal remains found at her pyramid show she died as a middle-aged woman.<ref name="WG"/>
Iput had another son, Nebkauhor.<ref>N. Kanawati, Mereruka and King Teti. The Power behind the Throne, 2007, p. 14 et 50</ref> She had several daughters: Seshseshet Waatetkhethor, Seshseshet Idut, Seshseshet Nubkhetnebty and Seshseshet Sathor.<ref>N. Kanawati, Mereruka and King Teti. The Power behind the Throne, 2007, p. 21-22 et 50</ref>
===Titles of Iput I=== Iput I held several titles<ref name="WG">Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-9547218-9-3}}</ref> because she was the daughter of a king: ''Daughter of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt'' (''s3t-niswt-biti''), ''King's Daughter of his body'' (''s3t-niswt-nt-kht.f''), ''God's Daughter'' (''s3t-ntr''), ''This God's Daughter'' (''s3t-ntr-wt'').
Other titles are because she was married to a pharaoh: ''King's Wife, his beloved'' (''hmt-nisw meryt.f''), ''Companion of Horus'' (''smrt-hrw''), ''Great one of the hetes-sceptre'' (''wrt-hetes''), ''She who sees Horus and Seth'' (''m33t-hrw-stsh''), and ''Great of Praises'' (''wrt-hzwt'').<ref name="WG"/>
Iput gained even more titles when her son Pepi I took the throne: ''King's Mother'' (''mwt-niswt''), ''Mother of the Dual King'' (''mwt-niswt-biti'') and ''King's Mother of the pyramid Mennefer-Pepy'' (''mwt-niswt-mn-nfr-ppy'').<ref name="WG"/> thumb|Pyramid of Iput I
==Burial== Iput was buried in Saqqara, in a pyramid near that of Teti. The pyramids of Iput and Khuit were discovered between July 1897 and February 1899 by Victor Loret.<ref>Lauer, Jean Phillipe. Saqqara: The Royal Cemetery of Memphis, Excavations and Discoveries since 1850. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1976. {{ISBN|0-684-14551-0}}</ref> Iput's tomb was originally a mastaba, but was transformed into a pyramid on the accession of her son Pepi to the throne.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Jánosi|first=Peter|journal=The Bullentin of the Australian Center for Egyptology|title=The Queens of the Old Kingdom and their Tombs|volume=3|year=1992|pages=51–57}}</ref>
The burial chamber contained a limestone sarcophagus, and a cedar coffin. Remains of a middle-aged woman were found. Some of her funerary equipment has survived. These include canopic vessels, a headrest, and a gold bracelet.<ref>Verner, Miroslav. The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments. Grove Press. 2001 (1997). {{ISBN|0-8021-3935-3}}</ref> Her remains are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The gold bracelet was found on Iput's arm. The chamber further contained several vessels including polished red pottery and a rock crystal cup. Model vessels and tools were included in the burial as well. Some of these had originally been covered in gold.<ref name="WG"/>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Queens of Ancient Egypt}}
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