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The Autobiography of Weni is a tomb inscription from Ancient Egypt, which is significant to Egyptology studies.

Arawak language dictionary

Weni the Elder, or Uni, was a court official of the 6th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

The location of the Tomb of Weni was lost as a result of Auguste Mariette's 1880 description of Weni's tomb being unclear ("[on] the high hill which gives the middle cemetery its name").

It was rediscovered in 1999 by an American archaeologist team led by Dr. Janet Richards.^[1] More recent works in the necropolis of Pepi I in Saqqara uncovered a second tomb for Weni with a near-identical copy of his biography.

Biography

Weni began his career under Teti, and rose through the ranks of the administration under Pepi I Meryre, for whom he was in turn a judge, a general and a vizier. Later, Weni became the governor of Upper Egypt during the reign of Merenre Nemtyemsaf I.

As judge he investigated the queen who was apparently suspected of involvement