left, fragmet of false door of Sabu also called Tjety Sabu also called Tjety () was the

High Priest of Ptah The High Priest of Ptah was sometimes referred to as "the Greatest of the Directors of Craftsmanship" ('' wr-ḫrp-ḥmwt''). This title refers to Ptah as the patron god of the craftsmen.Dodson and Hilton, ''The Complete Royal Families of Anci ...

in the Sixth Dynasty of

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. Sabu is mainly known from the remains of his mastaba in

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(E.3). The inscriptions on the fragment of a

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were copied in the 19th century and present part of a biography. The fragments are today in the

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. Sabu bears several titles including: ''Greatest of the Directors of the Craftsmen in the two houses'' (' - this is the title held by the ''High Priest of Ptah''), ''chief lector priest'', ''sole friend'' and ''count''. The text mentions that before Sabu was made ''High Priest of god Ptah'' there were always two men holding this position. Sabu was the first man to hold the position solely.James Henry Breasted: ''Ancient Records of Egypt: The first through the seventeenth dynasties'', p. 133 His chronological position within the Sixth Dynasty is uncertain.

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