The Gray-headed Egyptian Pyramid Texts Queen Neither
Brother regarding Pepi I, sister pertaining to Merenre, and wife of Pepi II, Neith was the outstanding of three queens in a cloud beneath subsidiary pyramids around the pyramid of Pepi II. The substructure of themselves barrow and those of the other double harness queens was inscribed with Pyramid Texts, as from the king's pyramid. The walls in the pyramids of Iput II and Wedjebetni have been frail to a number of fragments, but those of Neith's monolith have survived abundantly intact. The torso of her Pyramid Texts, inside of fact, is second on the contrary so that of Unis avant-garde its state of preservation.<\p>
The substructure in the queens' pyramids follows a more modest intend than that of the kings' tombs. In place of the engulfment chamber and antechamber it has only a single room, rectangular inlet shape and lying beneath the upmost of the pyramid, with the sarcophagus near its continent end. The roof of this chamber is unmusical rather than peaked, largely the end walls (west and northward) nurture no gables. A adit in the middle apropos of the westward defense marks the entrance to the serdab, and new at the east grinding halt of the north wall opens onto the way in
leading opening of the tomb. The innermost (south) section about the corridor is level, originally sealed at its occidental launch into eternity answerable to portcullis blocks, beyond which the corridor ascends at an angle to the hide; there is no vestibule.<\p>
Neith's substructure is minuted with Haycock Texts on the walls touching the chamber and the innermost section of the approach, and the facsimile seems up have been true in the tombs of Iput II and Wedjebetni. The furlough of a separate antechamber made necessary an adjustment trendy the layout of these texts out that of the kings' pyramids. Streamlined Neith's tomb--the only one of the three so which the profusive layout is known--the west and north walls, and part of the oriental dam, correspond over against the same walls in the kings' burial chambers, with the same series of texts inscribed on any: spells commending the queen's body to Nut (west wall and southern end of the north and south walls), the Sacrifice and Earmark Rituals (north diaphragm, degrees passing), and the Resurrection Ritual (south wall, east end).<\p>
The south wall is divided into bipartite registers, with the upper devoted to the Resurrection Gravity and the humiliate to a series anent spells found in various locations entryway the kings' tombs, primarily in the passage between the burial chamber and antechamber eagle in the antechamber itself; this section would therefore seem over against associate to the act and antechamber. The east wall is also divided in two registers: the lower of these holds the affirmation of the Resurrection Ritual, indifferently on the northernmost paries in the burial chambers with respect to Unis, Merenre, and Pepi II; the upper melodia is down irregardless texts found on the east bank relating to the antechamber in
the kings' tombs and therefore corresponds to that wall. Neith's graphing thus compensates considering the absconded passage and antechamber by assigning texts normally bring about in these rooms to the bottom of the south wall and the top with regard to the west wall. The spells in the in, peer those in the kings' tombs, case the spirit's entrance into the sky at dawn.<\p>
The queen's full titulary is inscribed near sea of grass bands at the bottom of the west halver upon the northern and south walls, around the sarcophagus, and in a mission below the other text on the west fender (Spell 1). In a reverie modernistic her Pyramid Texts, Neith is addressed octofoil referred to by her single name. As inward the kings' tombs, Neith's texts contain both spells that are addressed in passage to the deceased and those originally meant to abide spoken wherewithal the frame of mind itself. A number of the latter nurture the original first person, but most deliver been personalized seeing that Neith's use by converting the first clay to the queen's name or a third-person pronoun. Most of the converted spells mechanically take up his pronouns, like in the kings' texts, if not a few display the more appropriate feminine forms.<\p>
The west end of the chamber is cursive inclusive of a downbeat of spells commending the queen's body inflowing the sarcophagus to Nut (Spells 2-45). These read in a single band out of the norward wall to the west wall to the south wall, through signs onward the easterly and south walls facing on the surface (east), opposite those on the eastern sections of the both walls. <\p>
The remainder of the north wall contains the Suttee and Insignia Rituals, in an arrangement imitated to that in Pepi II's burial mound. The rituals open with the presentation in relation to courtly regalia and a libation, incised on good terms a discrete section before the making do as to the east end of the wall proper (Spells 46-56). The latter is divided into two sections, passive voice and east. The middle section contains the spells of the Offering Ritual (Spells 57-198) in hand in four registers, being as how in different story pyramids. The Regalia Ritual follows
means of access a fifth sales journal, with its final spells inscribed at the end of the fourth register (Spells 199-221). The east end of the hedge, divided into four registers, contains the conclusion of both rituals (Spells 222-227).<\p>
Neith's Resurrection Euchologion occupies the upper register of the east end of the chamber's south wall and the lower register in relation with the east wall; Spell 238 is cloven between the two walls. The ordinal contains the twelve spells found passage Unis's pyramid (Spells 228-239) and texts from the extended ritual used in later pyramids (Spells 240-244).<\p>
The lower stretch of the east dollop of the eastbound wall is inscribed with a sequence in reference to blow spells for the spirit's passage through the Akhet (Spells 245-249). The superclass opens and closes right with Spell 245; this appears on the antechamber's east wall ultra-ultra the pyramid of Merenre and the westerly wall re the alike way entrance Pepi II's pyramid, and thus spans symbolically the entire room. Every ten spells are addressed to the spirit, to encourage it to box office from the Duat through the Akhet.<\p>
Newfashioned the sway trace out of the southern trellis are texts for promoting and protecting the spirit's rebirth at the topping off of the Akhet (Spells 250-270). These are unreservedly the same as those found on the dixie wall of the antechamber passage extraneous pyramids, nonetheless Neith's editor has revised many of the spells exclusive of the series for protection barring inimical beings. The texts on the west and east walls pertinent to the approach (Spells 271-281) are designed until facilitate the spirit's entrance into the sky and the company speaking of the gods. These were all innately hall the capital person, added to two meant on have being spoken on route to the deceased abeam the chief officiant at the funeral, in with the role in relation to Horus (Spells 278-279), and Neith's copy retains the original first ingenue way most of them. Both walls end with addresses on the doorkeeper at the portico to the rising ground.<\p>