Akhethetep

Who is Akhethetep?

Akhethetep was a high dignitary of Ancient Egypt who lived during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BC. He was a son of Peseshet. Akhethotep and his son Ptahhotep Tshefi were senior court officials during the rule of Djedkare and of Unas, towards the end of the 5th dynasty.

He is famous for his tomb, discovered in Giza by French Egyptologist Georges Aaron Bénédite in 1903 and which was later reassembled in the Louvre. One of the depictions on the wall of the tomb was Akhethotep directing the building of the tomb. On one stele Akhethotep is called "prophet of the Unas pyramid Nefer asut"; but on the other he is "prophet of the Unas pyramid Asut asutt."