Menka (queen)

Menka in hieroglyphics
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	Relief with the figurative representation of the queen

Menka is the proper name of a queen of the late 2nd dynasty . It's unsure who she was dating .

supporting documents

Menka appears in a relief on a basalt fragment of uncertain origin, where her name is preceded by the title "Maat-Hor" ( Who looks at Horus ). This title was usually reserved for queens in the early days and the Old Kingdom .

Menka is shown as a standing woman in a skin-tight robe, she carries a large, hemispherical vessel on her head. She precedes a procession of standards . Wolfgang Helck points out a great stylistic similarity between the relief and an unfinished scene on a basal relief made of Gebelein , which can be attributed to King Chasechemui . Helck is therefore wondering whether the two fragments belong together.

literature

Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th dynasty . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04368-7
William Stevenson Smith: A History of Egyptian sculpture and painting in the Old Kingdom . Oxford University Press, London 1949, p. 30.
Wolfgang Helck : Investigations on the Thinite Age (= Ägyptologische Abhandlungen. (ÄA) Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , pp. 120-121.

Individual evidence

↑ Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt . Page 383

personal data
SURNAME	Menka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian queen
DATE OF BIRTH	27th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.

[1] Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt . Page 383