The The Egyptian history podcast, episode 17, a new era. King Unas was dead after a reign of 30 years.

The 5th dynasty has now come to its end, and this episode opens a new era in the history of the Egyptian monarchy and its society.

Unas was laid to rest by his son-in-law, Tetti, a young man of elite origin who married

Unas's daughter, a woman named Iput.

As he placed his predecessor in the tomb, Teddy was placing a final seal on the line of male rulers that had endured for over a century.

While the bloodline was preserved in the form of his wife Iput, Tete's reign is generally

held to be an appropriate place to divide between the Fifth Dynasty and the next period.

In the coming years and episodes, the elites as a social group will become even more visible

than they have previously.

And soon we can talk about their lifetime achievements and careers in as much detail as

we have talked about the Kings until this point.

Among Tetti's contemporaries were two high-ranking officials who served in the Central

Administration around this time period. We are not certain exactly when they lived, but current scholarly consensus places

them at the end of the Fifth Dynasty or during the early half of the Sixth.

Thus, it seems as good a time as any to get into the works and

careers of these two officials. Their names are Ka Gamney and Taheotepe.

Ta Hotepe, whose name translates to,

Ta is satisfied, referencing the Craftsman slash Creator God,

was a vizier who probably came to prominence around the time of Jed

Kare or Unas. Late in his life, probably during Tete's early reign, Tauteept dictated a guidebook for his son, who went by the same name.

The guidebook that Tautee wrote is commonly referred to as the maxims or teachings of Tahotep.

And it was copied repeatedly during later errors and survives to us in papyrus copies made during the middle and new kingdom. and hyroglyphs, and the importance of intellectual discourse and moral behavior.

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