Ménès

This article concerns the Pharaon. For the companion of Alexandre of the same name, to see the article Ménès de Pella.

Ménès is a Pharaon considered as the founder of the thinite.

One locates his reign towards -3150.

It is generally considered that he is the king called Méni (or Mény ) by the royal list of Abydos and the Papyrus of Turin, and Ménès by Manéthon which counts sixty years of reign to him. One found a name Ménès on a shelf of the king Aha but it is perhaps a late king honoured by his successor. Certain assumptions give to the root mn (which, registered prejudices a Sérekh, form the name of this king) the direction of “That which establishes”, whereas others gives him the direction of “Somebody”. The name of this king is on rather many documents. The representations of him show capped crowns of High and Low-Egypt.

It seems that Ménès would be at the origin of the unification of the kingdoms High and of Low-Egypt, and that he brought a great prosperity to the country. It creates fortified towns in the area of Gaza and a second capital at the junction point of the two countries with Memphis, which with This, in which it is originating, enables him to better control the country. It seems that he is the first to carry the double crown, the Pschent. This fact will be renewed in Memphis until the Greek time. He marries Neith-Hotep and has a child, probably his successor Hor-Aha.

Titulature

Reign

Its reign is lost in the origin of the Egyptian myths which make of him the first man have reigned on the Egypt after the god Horus and the demigods. It is sometimes compared to the king Narmer (his predecessor) or to the king Hor-Aha (its successor). Some see in him that which inspired the myth of Osiris.

Burial

It is buried in the cemetery (fall B17-B18) of Oumm El-Qaab to Abydos.

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