- History -

According to the Turin King-list, Netjerikhet Djoser's immediate successor, Sekhemkhet, identified by his personal name Djoser-Ti, ruled for only six years. His funerary monument, the Buried Pyramid built to the south-west of Djoser’s, was never finished, which may corroborate the short reign credited to Sekhemkhet by the Turin King-list. If it would have been finished, however, it would have been an even more magnificent building than Djoser’s.  When this monument was discovered, its sarcophagus was found sealed and empty. It does not appear to have been used. The human remains found in the South Tomb of Sekhemkhet's pyramid complex belonged to a 2 year old child and are thus unlikely to have belonged to Sekhemkhet himself.

A relief in the Wadi Maghara in the Sinai showing Sekhemkhet as an adult slaying a foe is sometimes seen as proof that Sekhemkhet was an adult during his reign. Such stereotyped representation, however, should be seen for what they are: conform to the canonic way of representing a king, regardless of his actual physical state, age or even sex.

Titulary

• Horus-name

Hr sxm X.t

Horus Sekhemkhet ("Horus, powerful of body")

• Kinglists

	tti	Teti
	Dsr tti	Djoser-Teti
	Dsr-tj	Djoser-ti
	Dsr tti	Djeser-Teti
	itti	Iteti

• Manetho

Africanus: Tyreis, Tyris

Eusebius has not recorded the name of this king and has only mentioned that the remaing kings of the dynasty achieved nothing worthy of mention.

• Alternative names in modern-day literature

Horus-Sekhemkhet, Djoser-Teti, Sékhemkhet, Horus Sekhemkhet, Sechemchet, Horus Sechemchet, Horus-Sechemchet