Menkare

Name of Menkare
Throne name	Menkare (Men-ka-Re) Mn-k3-Rˁ Lasting is the Ka of Re
List of Kings of Abydos (Seti I) (No.41)	Men-ka-Re Mn-k3-Rˁ Lasting is the Ka des Re

Menkare , also Men-ka-Re , is the throne name of an ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the 8th Dynasty ( First Intermediate Period ).

The sources of evidence on Menkare are very sparse. The list of kings in the Temple of Seti I of Abydos (No. 41) names him as the second king of the 8th dynasty. Further evidence are contemporary cylinder seals . One of these cylinder seals also names his successor at the same time, which Peter Kaplony interprets as a clue for a common reign (coregence), whereas Thomas Schneider considers this to be unlikely.

literature

General

• Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC). Bannerstone Press, Oakville 2008, ISBN 978-0977409440 , p. 197.
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 154.

About the name

• Peter Kaplony : The cylinder seals of the Old Kingdom. Fondation Egyptologique, Brussels 1981, vol. II, plate 113.
• Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbook of the Egyptian king names. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00832-2 , pp. 58, 186.

Questions of detail

• Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronology of the pharaonic Egypt. von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-2310-7 , p. 149.
• Hratch Papazian : The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty. In: Peter Der Manuelian , Thomas Schneider (Eds.): Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Perspectives on the Pyramid Age (= Harvard Egyptological Studies. Volume 1). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-30188-7 , pp. 393-428.

predecessor	Office	successor
Netericars	Pharaoh of Egypt 8th Dynasty	Neferkare II.