The Life of Weni

By Scriptural Research Institute

The life of Weni, also called Uni, is one of the best-documented lives from the era of the Old Kingdom era of Egyptian history. Weni experienced significant upward mobility during the reigns of kings Teti, Userkare, Pepi I, and Merenre I, and as a result had a second tomb prepared for himself later in life, resulting in two of his tombs survivin

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital Ink Productions
• Release date: Oct 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781990289293

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The Life of Weni

SCRIPTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Published by Digital Ink Productions, 2023

COPYRIGHT

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

The Life of Weni

Digital edition. October 30, 2023

Copyright © 2023 Scriptural Research Institute.

ISBN: 978-1-990289-29-3

This English translation was created by the Scriptural Research Institute in 2021 through 2023, primarily from the French translation of the text published by P. Tresson (L'inscription d'Ouni) published in 1919, and the German translation by L. Borchardt (Denkmaler des Alten Reiches) published in 1937. Additionally, K. Sethe’s German translation in Urkunden des alten Reichs (1932) was used for comparative analysis.

The image used for the cover is an artistic reinterpretation of ‘City entrance along the Nile’ by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, painted circa 1890.

Note: The notes for this book includes multiple ancient scripts. For your convenience, fonts correctly depicting these scripts are embedded in the ebook. If your reader does not support embedded fonts, you will need to install Unicode fonts that cover the ranges for Coptic, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Greek, and Old Nubian on your reader manually, or you may see blank areas, question marks, or squares where the scripts are used. The Noto fonts from Google cover most of the scripts used, however, will not depict Egyptian hieroglyphs correctly due to current limitations in Unicode.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Forward

Inscription of Weni

Autobiography of Weni

Available Digitally

Available in Print

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The life of Weni, also called Uni, is one of the best-documented lives from the Old Kingdom era of Egyptian history. Weni experienced significant upward mobility during the reigns of kings Teti, Userkare, Pepi I, and Merenre I, and as a result had a second tomb prepared for himself later in life, resulting in two of his tombs surviving to the present. His tombs were not extravagant like the king’s pyramids of the era, and seem to have generally been ignored until they were rediscovered in the 1800s. His earlier, smaller tomb included the shorter Inscription of Weni, sometimes called