{{for|the queen from the Fifth dynasty of Egypt named Khuit|Khuit I}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Khuit II<br>{{center|<hiero>x-w-i-t</hiero>}} | succession = Queen consort of Egypt | reign = c. 2360 BC | regent = Teti | reg-type = King | burial_place = Badrshein, Giza, Egypt | consort = yes | spouse = Teti | issue = Tetiankhkem }}
'''Khuit II''' ({{fl.|{{circa}} 2360 BC}}) was a wife of King Teti, the first king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt.<ref>{{dodson}}, p.76</ref>
== Biography == Khuit may have been the first prominent royal wife from the reign of Teti. If so, her position would later be taken over by Iput.<!-- ??? Iput was a princess by birth, a daughter of the previous ruler, I doubt she was second in rank to anyone--> Khuit may have been the mother of King Userkare (according to Jánosi and Callender),<ref name="Verner"/> but this is not at all certain and some would have a queen named Khentkaus IV as the mother of Userkare.<ref>Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. ''The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt''. Thames & Hudson. 2004. {{ISBN|0-500-05128-3}}</ref> Khuit was the mother of Tetiankhkem, whilst Khuit's daughter could have been Seshseshet Sheshit.<ref>N. Kanawati, Mereruka and King Teti. The Power behind the Throne, 2007, p. 20, 32 et 35</ref>
According to her monuments, Khuit held the titles: * King's Wife (''ḥmt-niswt'') and King's Wife, his beloved (''ḥmt-niswt mryt.f'') * Companion of Horus (''smrt-ḥrw'')<ref>Grajetzki, Wolfram <cite>Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary</cite>, p.22</ref>
==Burial== thumb|left|Pyramid complex of Khuit in Saqqara The pyramids of Iput I and Khuit were discovered between July 1897 and February 1899 by Victor Loret just north of Teti's pyramid complex at Saqqara.<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>
Loret initially thought Khuit's tomb was a mastaba. Excavations in the 1960s by Maragioglio and Rinaldi first suggested that Khuit had been buried in a pyramid. Remains of masonry belonging to the ruins of a small mortuary temple were found as well. Further excavations in 1995 by Hawass have confirmed that Khuit's tomb was a pyramid. Excavations of the pyramid itself revealed a burial chamber with a pink granite sarcophagus. The mortuary temple associated with her funerary complex is located to the east of the pyramid. The temple included an offering room with a false door and an altar. The temple walls were decorated and showed scenes of offering bearers.<ref name="Verner">Verner, Miroslav. The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments. Grove Press. 2001. {{ISBN|0-8021-3935-3}}</ref> {{commons category|Khuit}} {{clear}}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Queens of Ancient Egypt}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Khuit}} Category:24th-century BC women Category:Queens consort of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt Category:24th-century BC births Category:24th-century BC deaths