Editing Djoser (section)

==Family==

Djoser is linked to [[Khasekhemwy]], the last king of the [[Second Dynasty of Egypt]], through his wife Queen [[Nimaethap]] (Nimaat-hap) via seals found in Khasekhemwy's tomb and at [[Beit Khallaf]]. The seal at Abydos names Nimaat-hap as the "mother of the king's children, Nimaat-hap". On mastaba K1 at Beit Khallaf, the same person is mentioned as the "mother of the dual king". Dating of other seals at the Beit Khallaf site place them to the reign of Djoser. This evidence suggests that Khasekhemwy is either the direct father of Djoser or that Nimaat-hap had him through a previous husband.{{sfn|Wilkinson|2001|p=79}} German Egyptologist Gunter Dreyer found Djoser's sealings at Khasekhemwy's tomb, further suggesting that Djoser was the direct successor of Khasekhemwy and that he finished the construction of the tomb.{{sfn|Bard|2015|p=140}}

Her cult seems to have still been active in the later reign of [[Sneferu]].

[[Hetephernebti]] is identified as one of Djoser's queens "on a series of boundary stela from the Step Pyramid enclosure (now in various museums) and a fragment of relief from a building at Hermopolis" currently in the Egyptian museum of Turin.{{sfn|Dodson|Hilton|2004|p=48}}

[[Inetkawes]] was their only daughter known by name. There was also a third royal female attested during Djoser's reign, but her name is destroyed. The relationship between Djoser and his successor, [[Sekhemkhet]], is not known, and the date of his death is uncertain.