Neith, Wedjebten, Iput II, Ankhnespepi III and Ankhnespepi IV

The three principal queens of Pepi II were buried in small-scale pyramid complexes beside his own far larger Saqqara complex. The largest of the three belonged to Queen Neith, the daughter of Pepi I and Ankhnespepi I, and therefore both half-sister and cousin of Pepi II. Here, on her temple walls we can see Neith wearing the vulture crown with the corba head, and carrying a papyrus sceptre.
Wedjebten, also a daughter of Pepi I, had a smaller pyramid complex but two perimeter walls. The pyramid complex built for Iput II has today almost entirely disappeared, but enough remains to allow us to read her titles and see that she was never a King's Mother; maybe her son died before he could succeed his long-lived father. Iput's complex housed an instructive First International Period burial. Ankhenespepi III was the daughter of Merenre, son of Pepi I. She was buried in a pyramid near the pyramid of Pepi I, where her sarcophagus was carved out of a massive flooring block.
Queen Ankhnespepi IV was yet another wife of Pepi II whose son, the insignificant king Neferkare Nebi, is thought to have ruled during the 8th Dynasty. The lid of her coffin, recovered from the western storeroom in the pyramid complex of Iput II, was carved with a royal history which, as yet unpublished, is reported to record events during the turbulent 6th Dynasty, including the abrupt end of Teti's reign.