Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

dtn. t. UNAS—TETA—USER-KA-KA 45

The last Pharaoh of the dynasty bore the name of

We know little more of him than that his sepulchre
was called Kefer-asu, I J | ±, which means 'themost
beautiful place.'

[The Mastabat-el-Farun, first explored by Mariette,
was at one time supposed both by the excavator and
Brugsch-Bey himself to be the tomb of this king.
It has now been ascertained by Maspero that Unas
was buried in the pyramid that has since 1881 borne
his name, and which lies to the south-west of the
Step Pyramid. The walls lining the sarcophagus-
chamber are of alabaster and covered with paintings,
the colours of which are still fresh. The fragments of
the king's mummy were found scattered on the floor.]

In accordance with the Tablets of Abydos and Saq-
qarah, the monuments call the first prince of the Sixth

Dynasty ( 2 I J' ^ETA> But we als0 nave proof of
his succession in another way. In the grave of
Ptah-Shepses, at Saqqarah, this nobleman's offices and
dignities are enumerated at the usual length. He
was the sacred prophet of the pyramids of Unas, and
of Teta, who was the first king to adopt the title

of Se-Ea, ' Son of the Sun,' "7^* • The pyramid

of this latter was called Tat-asu, fJiJ± 'the most
lasting of places,' surely not without allusion to the
king's own name.

It has been supposed that the name of Usbr-ka-Ea,
which the Tablet of Abydos places after that of Teta,

was the official title of a King An, f | • I I 1 who
likewise built a pyramid, called Baiu, 3gj. a, ' the pyra-