↑ Cemetery 2000 in Giza contains several tombs of overseers and inspectors of the palace attendants who lived during Djedkare's reign.[23]
↑ Neserkauhor was buried in mastaba C, south of Nyuserre's pyramid complex in the east of the Abusir necropolis.[56]
↑ Prince Raemka was buried in the mastaba tomb S80, also known as mastaba D3 and QS 903, in Saqqara, north of Djoser's pyramid.[55] His tomb seems to have been usurped[58] from a certain Neferiretnes.[59] The chapel from Raemka's tomb is now on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[60]
↑ Prince Kaemtjenent was buried in the mastaba tomb S84 in Saqqara.[55]
↑ As opposed to those bearing the title "king's son", which was used as an honorary title during the later Fifth Dynasty.
↑ Isesi-ankh was buried in mastaba D8, north of the pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara.[68]
↑ Kekheretnebti is believed to have died in her early thirties, she was buried in mastaba B in east Abusir, south of the pyramid complex of Nyuserre.[79] She had a daughter named Tisethor, who was buried in an extension of her tomb.[54]
↑ The inscription reads "First occasion of the Sed festival of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Djedkare, beloved of the bas of Heliopolis, given life, stability, and all joy for ever."[84][85]
↑ The years of 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 22nd cattle counts are attested in contemporary sources for Djedkare Isesi.[88][89]
↑ Miroslav Verner writes that Paule Posener-Kriéger and Jean-Louis de Cenival transcribed the year date numeral in the papyrus as the "year of the 21st count" in their 1968 study of the Abusir papyri.[92] Verner notes that in "the damaged place where the numeral still is, one can see a tiny black trace of another vertical stroke just visible. Therefore, the numeral can probably be reconstructed as 22.[93]
↑ The abandonment of Abusir as the royal necropolis meant that Djedkare had to strictly regulate its activities so as to ensure the proper continuation of the funerary cults taking place there, which explains in large part the administrative content of the Abusir papyri.[111]
↑ The Egyptologist Nigel Strudwick illustrates this novelty with the cases of Isesi-ankh and Kaemtjenent, who both bore the title of "king's son" as well as a number of administrative titles such as "overseer of all the works of the king" and "seal bearer of the god".[68] The Egyptologists Michel Baud and Bettina Schmitz have argued that the title of "king's son" here does not denote a true filiation and was only honorary, at least in the case of Isesi-ankh.[72][71] More generally Baud and Schmitz consider that true princes of blood were qualified of smsw [z3 nswt] for "eldest [king's son]" and remained excluded from holding administrative offices.[114]
↑ The block inscribed with the text relating Djedkare's works in the temple of Nyuserre reads "Horus Djedkhau, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Two Ladies Djedkhau, the Golden Horus Djed, Djedkare. For the king of Upper and Lower Egypt [Nyuse]rre he set up a monument ...".[118] It is now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, catalog No. 17933.[22]
↑ The name of the palace mentioned in the decree has been the subject of varying translations owing to the damaged state of the inscription. For Brovarski and Sethe the palace is simply called the "jubilee palace" in the decree,[128] while others such as Breasted,[129] Roccati,[130] and Trigger[127] have read the palace name as "lotus-blossom of Isesi" or "lotus of Isesi" (Ancient Egyptian Nehbet). Wente reads the "jubilee palace of Lotus-of-Izezi".[131]
↑ It is unclear whether two of the inscribed texts originate from the same damaged inscription or have always been part of two different inscriptions.[135]
↑ Also translated as "terraces of turquoise" from the Egyptian ḫtjw mfk3t.[139]
↑ The rock exploited in these quarries actually comprises two varieties of gneiss, the word "diorite" being misused by Egyptologists to designate these.[148]
↑ Gold is Nub in Ancient Egyptian, and the "land of gold" may have given rise to the modern word "Nubia"[150]
↑ The golden seal has the catalog number 68.115.[147]
↑ The provenance of the seal is usually believed to be a tomb in a yet undiscovered site along the Eastern Mediterranean coast.[154] The archaeologist Karin Sowada doubts the authenticity of the seal.[155]
↑ Transliterations nfr-Jzzj and nfr-Ḏd-k3-Rˁ.[168]
↑ Ancient Egyptian Mr-Rˁ-ˁnḫ-Izzi, tomb of Ptahhotep II, Saqqara.[179]
