Sabu also called Tjety

{{Short description|Ancient Egyptian high priest}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Sabu

| burial_place = Badrshein, Giza, Egypt

| years_active = c. 2300 BC

| children = Ptahshepses

}}

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{{hiero|Sabu also called Tjety
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Sabu also called Tjety ({{fl.|{{circa}} 2300 BC}}) was the High Priest of Ptah in the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Sabu is mainly known from the remains of his mastaba in Saqqara (E.3). The inscriptions on the fragment of a false door were copied in the 19th century and present part of a biography. The fragments are today in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.Catalogue Generals 1709, 1756; Ludwig Borchardt: Denkmäler des Alten Reiches (ausser den Statuen) im Museum zu Kairo Nr. 1295–1808, Teil II: Text und Tafeln zu Nr. 1542–1808, Kairo, 1964, pp. 148, 177-78) Sabu bears several titles including: Greatest of the Directors of the Craftsmen in the two houses ({{lang|egy|wr ḫrpw hmwt m prwy}} - this is the title held by the High Priest of Ptah), chief lector priest, sole friend and count.Auguste Mariette; Gaston Maspero (editor): Les Mastabas de l'ancien empire, Paris 1889, p. 389-91

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.