↑ In particular the title of "king's son" was given to both actual royal sons and non-royal high officials.[43]
↑ The text of the inscription reads "Horus Wadjtawy, the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Unas, lord of the foreign lands, given life and dominion for ever, beloved of Khnum, given life for ever".[66][67]
↑ A palmiform column is a column whose capital has the form of palm leaves. This style is for example present in the mortuary complex of king Sahure.[79]
↑ Iput held the title of z3t nswt-bjtj, which literally means "Daughter of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt". However, this title could equally well be a variant of z3t-ntjr, meaning that she was the mother of a king (Pepi I)[52]
↑ From "Mennefer", meaning "Perfect and enduring", the name of the pyramid of Pepi I next to which Mennefer was located.[88]
↑ Another important religious work, the Memphite Theology, may have been written during the reign of Unas.[74] The Memphite Theology is a story of the creation of the world and of the religious and social order of ancient Egypt through the word and will of the god Ptah. The king himself is described as the personified Horus and an aspect of Ptah.[100] It is now widely believed, however, that this theological text dates to either to the 19th Dynasty or to the much later 25th Dynasty (760–656 BC).[101][102]
↑ Note that the archaic style of certain sections of the Pyramid Texts indicate that these are much older than Unas' reign.[107]
↑ The number reported differs from scholar to scholar. Clayton mentions 228 spells;[109] Allen gives 236.[108]
↑ While most historians believe that it is unlikely that Unas himself engaged in cannibalism, the Egyptologist Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge proposed that the Cannibal Hymn may harken back to an earlier time in Egyptian history when cannibalism was in fact practiced.[116]
