Menes

Founder of Manetho's 1st dynasty and unifier of Egypt

For other uses, see Menes (disambiguation).

Menes

Africanus: Mênês
Eusebius: Mênês
Narmer (?)
Hor-Aha (?)

The cartouche of Menes on the Abydos King List

Pharaoh
Reign| c. 3200–3000 BC[1]
Successor| Hor-Aha (possibly)
Djer (possibly)

Royal titulary

| Nebty name

| Nisut-Bity-Men
nsw.t-bjtj-mn
King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the endurer[2]
|  |

|
|

Nomen
| Menes[3][4][5]
Mnj
He who endures[6]
|  | | |

|

Burial| Umm El Qa'ab chambers B17 and B18 (Narmer’s burial)
Umm El Qa'ab chambers B10/B15/B19 (Hor-Aha’s burial)
Dynasty| First Dynasty

Menes (fl. c. 3200–3000 BC;[1] /ˈmeɪneɪz/; Ancient Egyptian: mnj, probably pronounced */maˈnij/;[7] Ancient Greek: Μήνης[6] and Μήν[8]) was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt, and as the founder of the First Dynasty.[9]

The identity of Menes is the subject of ongoing debate, although mainstream Egyptological consensus inconclusively identifies Menes with the Naqada III ruler Narmer[3][4][5][10] or his successor, the First Dynasty pharaoh Hor-Aha.[11]

## Name and identity

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The name Menes is first documented in the work of Manetho, an Egyptian historian and priest of the relatively late Ptolemaic period. Manetho noted the name in Greek as Μήνης (transliterated: Mênês).[6][12] An alternative Greek form, Μιν (transliterated: Min), was cited by the fifth-century-BC historian Herodotus,[13] but this variant appears to be unrelated, the result of contamination from the name of the god Min.[14] The Egyptian form, mnj, is taken from the Turin and Abydos King Lists, which are dated to the Nineteenth Dynasty, whose pronunciation has been reconstructed as */maˈnij/. By the early New Kingdom, changes in the Egyptian language meant his name was already pronounced */maˈneʔ/.[15] The name mnj means "He who endures", which, I.E.S. Edwards (1971) suggests, may have been coined as "a mere descriptive epithet denoting a semi-legendary hero [...] whose name had been lost".[6] Alternatively, the name may conceal the collective identity of the Naqada III rulers: Ka, Scorpion II and Narmer, or may simply refer to a functional leadership role.[6]

### Narmer and Menes

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Main article: Narmer

Two Horus names of Hor-Aha (left and center) and a name of Menes (right) in hieroglyphs.

Ivory tablet of Menes

The ivory label mentioning Hor-Aha along with the mn sign.

Reconstructed tablet.

The almost complete absence of any mention of Menes in the archaeological record[6] and the comparative wealth of evidence of Narmer, a protodynastic figure credited by posterity and in the archaeological record with a firm claim[4] to the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, has given rise to a theory identifying Menes with Narmer.

The chief archaeological reference to Menes is an ivory label (from the town Naqada) which depicts the royal title Aha (the pharaoh Hor-Aha) next to a building, and within this is the royal title mn,[16] generally taken to be Menes.[6][a] From this, various theories on the nature of the building (a funerary booth or a shrine), the meaning of the word mn (a name or the verb endures) and the relationship between Hor-Aha and Menes (as one person or as successive pharaohs) have arisen.[3]

The Turin and Abydos king lists, generally accepted to be correct,[3] list the nesu-bit-names of the pharaohs, not their Horus name,[4] and are vital to the potential reconciliation of the various records: the nesu-bit-names of the king lists, the Horus-names of the archaeological record and the number of pharaohs in Dynasty I according to Manetho and other historical sources.[4]

Flinders Petrie first attempted this task,[4] associating Iti with Djer as the third pharaoh of Dynasty I, Teti (Turin) (or another Iti (Abydos)) with Hor-Aha as second pharaoh, and Menes (a nebty-name) with Narmer (a Horus-name) as first pharaoh of Dynasty I.[3][4] Lloyd (1994) finds this succession "extremely probable",[4] and Cervelló-Autuori (2003) categorically states that "Menes is Narmer and the First Dynasty begins with him".[5] However, Seidlmayer (2004) states that it is "a fairly safe inference" that Menes was Hor-Aha.[11]

Two documents have been put forward as proof either Narmer or Hor-Aha was Menes. The first is the "Naqada Label" found at the site of Naqada, in the tomb of Queen Neithhotep, often assumed to have been the mother of Horus Aha.[17] The label shows a serekh of Hor-Aha next to an enclosure inside of which are symbols that have been interpreted by some scholars as the name "Menes". The second is the seal impression from Abydos that alternates between a serekh of Narmer and the chessboard symbol, "mn", which is interpreted as an abbreviation of Menes. Inconclusive arguments have been made with regard to each of these documents in favour of Narmer or Hor-Aha being Menes.[b]

The second document, the seal impression from Abydos, shows the serekh of Narmer alternating with the gameboard sign (mn), together with its phonetic complement, the n sign, which is always shown when the full name of Menes is written, again representing the name "Menes". At first glance, this would seem to be strong evidence that Narmer was Menes.[21] However, based on an analysis of other early First Dynasty seal impressions, which contain the name of one or more princes, the seal impression has been interpreted by other scholars as showing the name of a prince of Narmer named Menes, hence Menes was Narmer's successor, Hor-Aha, and thus Hor-Aha was Menes.[22] This was refuted by Cervelló-Autuori 2005, pp. 42–45; but opinions still vary, and the seal impression cannot be said to definitively support either theory.[23]

Herodotus, having mentioned Min as the first king of Egypt, wrote that Linus, or Egyptian Maneros, was "the only son of the first king of Egypt" and that he died untimely.[24]

## Dates

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Egyptologists, archaeologists, and scholars from the 19th century have proposed different dates for the era of Menes, or the date of the first dynasty:[25][c]

* John Gardner Wilkinson (1835) – 2320 BC
* Jean-François Champollion (Published posthumously in 1840) – 5867 BC
* August Böckh (1845) – 5702 BC
* Christian Charles Josias Bunsen (1848) – 3623 BC
* Reginald Stuart Poole (1851) – 2717 BC
* Karl Richard Lepsius (1856) – 3892 BC
* Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1859) – 4455 BC
* Franz Joseph Lauth (1869) – 4157 BC
* Auguste Mariette (1871) – 5004 BC
* James Strong (1878) – 2515 BC
* Flinders Petrie (1887) – 4777 BC

Modern consensus dates the era of Menes or the start of the first dynasty between c. 3200–3030 BC; some academic literature uses c. 3000 BC.[1]

## History

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Ebony plaque of Narmer from his tomb of Abydos

Ancient tradition ascribes to Menes to uniting Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom[26] and becoming the first pharaoh of the First Dynasty.[27] Although Menes does not appear on extant pieces of the Royal Annals (Cairo Stone and Palermo Stone), his name appears in later sources as the first ruler of Egypt. Some sources credit him as directly inheriting the throne from the god Horus.[28] He also appears in later dated king's lists, always as the first human pharaoh of Egypt. Menes appears in demotic novels of the Hellenistic period, demonstrating that, even that late, he was regarded as an important figure.[29]

Menes was seen as a founding figure for much of the history of ancient Egypt, similar to Romulus in ancient Rome.[30] Manetho records that Menes "led the army across the frontier and won great glory".[12][27]

### Capital

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Manetho associates the city of Thinis with the Early Dynastic Period and, in particular, Menes, a "Thinite" or native of Thinis.[12][27] Herodotus contradicts Manetho in stating that Menes founded the city of Memphis as his capital[31] after diverting the course of the Nile through the construction of a levee.[32] Manetho ascribes the building of Memphis to Menes' son, Athothis,[27] and calls no pharaohs earlier than Third Dynasty "Memphite".[33]

Herodotus and Manetho's stories of the foundation of Memphis are probably later inventions: in 2012 a relief mentioning the visit to Memphis by Iry-Hor—a predynastic ruler of Upper Egypt reigning before Narmer—was discovered in the Sinai Peninsula, indicating that the city was already in existence in the early 32nd century BC.[34]

### Cultural influence

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Labels from the tomb of Narmer

Diodorus Siculus stated that Menes had introduced the worship of the gods and the practice of sacrifice[35] as well as a more elegant and luxurious style of living.[35] For this latter invention, Menes' memory was dishonoured by the Twenty-fourth Dynasty pharaoh Tefnakht and Plutarch mentions a pillar at Thebes on which was inscribed an imprecation against Menes as the introducer of luxury.[35]

In Pliny's[clarification needed] account, Menes was credited with being the inventor of writing in Egypt.

### Crocodile episode

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Diodorus Siculus recorded a story of Menes related by the priests of the crocodile god Sobek at Crocodilopolis, in which the pharaoh Menes, attacked by his own dogs while out hunting,[36] fled across Lake Moeris on the back of a crocodile and, in thanks, founded the city of Crocodilopolis.[36][37][38]

Gaston Maspero (1910), while acknowledging the possibility that traditions relating to other kings may have become mixed up with this story, dismisses the suggestions of some commentators[39] that the story should be transferred to the Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh Amenemhat III and sees no reason to doubt that Diodorus did not correctly record a tradition of Menes.[36] Later, Edwards (1971) states that "the legend, which is obviously filled with anachronisms, is patently devoid of historical value".[37]

### Death

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According to Manetho, Menes reigned for either 30, 60 or 62 years and was killed by a hippopotamus.[12][40]

## In popular culture

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Alexander Dow (1735/6–1779), a Scottish orientalist and playwright, wrote the tragedy Sethona, set in ancient Egypt. The lead part of Menes is described in the dramatis personæ as "next male-heir to the crown" now worn by Seraphis, and was played by Samuel Reddish in a 1774 production by David Garrick at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[41]

In Hobby Japan's Queen's Blade media franchise, there is a character named Menace. Her name is a play on the ancient Egyptian ruler Menes. She is depicted wearing an outfit inspired by Ancient Egyptian fashion.[42]

## See also

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* First Dynasty of Egypt family tree
* Hor-Aha
* Min (god)
* Minos, king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa
* Mannus, ancestral figure in Germanic mythology
* Manu (Hinduism), Progenitor of humanity

## Explanatory notes

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1. ^ Originally, the full royal title of a pharaoh was Horus name x nebty name y Golden-Horus name z nesu-bit name a Son-of-Ra name b. For brevity's sake, only one element might be used, but the choice varied between circumstances and period. Starting with Dynasty V, the nesu-bit name was the one regularly used in all official documents. In Dynasty I, the Horus-name was used for a living pharaoh, the nebty-name for the dead.[4]
2. ^ In the upper right hand quarter of the Naqada label is a serekh of Hor-Aha. To its right is a hill-shaped triple enclosure with the "mn" sign surmounted by the signs of the "two ladies", the goddesses of Upper Egypt (Nekhbet) and Lower Egypt (Wadjet). In later contexts, the presence of the "two ladies" would indicate a "nbty" name (one of the five names of the king). Hence, the inscription was interpreted as showing that the "nbty" name of Hor-Aha was "Mn" short for Menes.[18] An alternative theory is that the enclosure was a funeral shrine and it represents Hor-Aha burying his predecessor, Menes. Hence Menes was Narmer.[19] Although the label generated a lot of debate, it is now generally agreed that the inscription in the shrine is not a king’s name, but is the name of the shrine "The Two Ladies Endure," and provide no evidence for who Menes was.[20]
3. ^ Other dates typical of the era are found cited in Capart, Jean, Primitive Art in Egypt, pp. 17–18.

## Citations

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1. ^ a b c Kitchen, KA (1991). "The Chronology of Ancient Egypt". World Archaeology. 23 (2): 201–8\. doi:10.1080/00438243.1991.9980172.
2. ^ "Naqada Label | The Ancient Egypt Site". Archived from the original on 2022-04-03. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
3. ^ a b c d e Edwards 1971, p. 13.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Lloyd 1994, p. 7.
5. ^ a b c Cervelló-Autuori 2003, p. 174.
6. ^ a b c d e f g Edwards 1971, p. 11.
7. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995). Ancient Egyptian: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge University press. ISBN 0-521-44384-9.
8. ^ "Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Menes". Perseus Digital Library. Tufts University. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
9. ^ Beck et al. 1999.
10. ^ Heagy 2014.
11. ^ a b Seidlmayer 2010.
12. ^ a b c d Manetho, Fr. 6, 7a, 7b. Text and translation in Manetho, translated by W.G. Waddell (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1940), pp.26–35
13. ^ Herodotus: 2.4.1, 2.99.1ff.
14. ^ Lloyd 1994, p. 6.
15. ^ Loprieno 1995, p. 38.
16. ^ Gardiner 1961, p. 405.
17. ^ "Naqada Label | The Ancient Egypt Site". Archived from the original on 2022-04-03. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
18. ^ Borchardt 1897, pp. 1056–1057.
19. ^ Newberry 1929, pp. 47–49.
20. ^ Kinnaer 2003, p. 30.
21. ^ Newberry 1929, pp. 49–50.
22. ^ Helck 1953, pp. 356–359.
23. ^ Heagy 2014, pp. 77–78.
24. ^ Herodotus (1958). The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Translated by Harry Carter. Haarlem, Netherlands: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. p. 122\. OCLC 270617466.
25. ^ Budge, EA Wallis (1885), The Dwellers on the Nile: Chapters on the Life, Literature, History and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, p. 54, "Many dates have been fixed by scholars for the reign of this king: Champollion-Figeac thought about BC 5867, Bunsen 3623, Lepsius 3892, Brugsch 4455, and Wilkinson 2320."
26. ^ Maspero 1903, p. 331.
27. ^ a b c d Verbrugghe & Wickersham 2001, p. 131.
28. ^ Shaw & Nicholson 1995, p. 218.
29. ^ Ryholt 2009.
30. ^ Manley 1997, p. 22.
31. ^ Herodotus: 2.99.4.
32. ^ Herodotus: 2.109
33. ^ Verbrugghe & Wickersham 2001, p. 133.
34. ^ P. Tallet, D. Laisnay: Iry-Hor et Narmer au Sud-Sinaï (Ouadi 'Ameyra), un complément à la chronologie des expéditios minière égyptiene, in: BIFAO 112 (2012), 381–395, available online Archived 2023-02-28 at the Wayback Machine
35. ^ a b c Elder 1849, p. 1040.
36. ^ a b c Maspero 1910, p. 235.
37. ^ a b Edwards 1971, p. 22.
38. ^ Diodorus: 45
39. ^ Elder 1849, p. 1040, ‘in defiance of chronology’.
40. ^ "Comparing the King Lists of Manetho". Archived from the original on 2023-03-01. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
41. ^ Dow 1774.
42. ^ "クイーンズブレイド 古代の王女 メナス (対戦型ビジュアルブックロストワールド)". Amazon Japan. Retrieved 26 January 2025.

## General and cited references

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* Borchardt, Ludwig (1897), Ein Kapitel Zur Geschichte Des Pflanzenornaments
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* Cervelló-Autuori, Josep (2005), "Was King Narmer Menes?", Archéo-Nil, 15: 31–46, doi:10.3406/ARNIL.2005.896.
* Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, vol. 1
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* Edwards, IES (1971), "The early dynastic period in Egypt", The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 1, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Elder, Edward (1849), "Menes", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, vol. 2, Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown.
* Faber, George Stanley (1816), "The origin of pagan idolatry: ascertained from historical testimony and circumstantial evidence", 3, vol. 2, London: F&C Rivingtons.
* Gardiner, Alan (1961), Egypt of the Pharaohs, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Menes.

* Menes, Ancient Egypt.
* "The Contendings of Horus and Seth", Egypt, IL: Reshafim, archived from the original on 2010-09-24, retrieved 2007-07-22.
* "Menes", Ancient Egyptian Civilization (image), Aldokkan.
* "Menes" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

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* Amenhotep III
* Akhenaten
* Smenkhkare
* Neferneferuaten♀
* Tutankhamun
* Ay
* Horemheb

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XIX|

* Ramesses I
* Seti I
* Ramesses II
* Merneptah
* Amenmesses
* Seti II
* Siptah
* Tausret♀

XX|

* Setnakhte
* Ramesses III
* Ramesses IV
* Ramesses V
* Ramesses VI
* Ramesses VII
* Ramesses VIII
* Ramesses IX
* Ramesses X
* Ramesses XI
* Ramesses XII

3rd Intermediate
(1069–664 BC)|

| XXI|

* Smendes
* Amenemnisu
* Psusennes I
* Amenemope
* Osorkon the Elder
* Siamun
* Psusennes II

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High Priests of Amun|

* Herihor
* Pinedjem I
* Menkheperre

XXII|

* Shoshenq I
* Osorkon I
* Heqakheperre Shoshenq IIa
* Tutkheperre Shoshenq IIb
* Maatkheperre Shoshenq IIc
* Takelot I
* Osorkon II
* Shoshenq III
* Shoshenq IV
* Pami I
* Shoshenq V

Lines of XXII/XXIII|

* Harsiese
* Takelot II
* Pedubast I
* Iuput I
* Shoshenq VI
* Osorkon III
* Takelot III
* Rudamun
* Shoshenq VII
* Menkheperre Ini
* Iuput II of Leontopolis
* Peftjauawybast of Herakleopolis
* Nimlot I of Hermopolis
* Djehutyemhat of Hermopolis
* Nimlot II of Hermopolis
* Padinemti of Hermopolis

XXIII|

* Pedubast II
* Osorkon IV
* Pami II
* Gemenefkhonsbak
* Pedubast III

XXIV|

* Tefnakht
* Bakenranef

XXV|

* Piye
* Shebitku
* Shabaka
* Taharqa
* Tanutamun

Late to Roman Period (664 BC–313 AD)

Period

Dynasty

* Pharaohs
* male
* female♀
* uncertain

|

Late
(664–332 BC)|

| XXVI|

* Ammeris
* Tefnakht II
* Nekauba
* Necho I
* Psamtik I
* Necho II
* Psamtik II
* Wahibre
* Ahmose II
* Psamtik III

|

XXVII|

* Cambyses II
* Petubastis III
* Darius I
* Psammetichus IV
* Xerxes
* Artaxerxes I
* Darius II

XXVIII|

* Amyrtaeus

XXIX|

* Nepherites I
* Hakor
* Psammuthes
* Nepherites II
* Muthis

XXX|

* Nectanebo I
* Teos
* Nectanebo II

XXXI|

* Artaxerxes III
* Khabash
* Arses
* Darius III

Hellenistic
(332–30 BC)|

| Argead|

* Alexander the Great
* Philip III Arrhidaeus
* Alexander IV

|

Ptolemaic|

* Ptolemy I Soter
* Ptolemy II Philadelphus
* Ptolemy III Euergetes
* Ptolemy IV Philopator
* Ptolemy V Epiphanes
* Ptolemy VI Philometor
* Cleopatra II♀
* Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator
* Ptolemy VIII Euergetes
* Cleopatra III♀
* Ptolemy IX Soter
* Ptolemy X Alexander I
* Berenice III♀
* Ptolemy XI Alexander II
* Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos
* Cleopatra V♀
* Berenice IV Epiphaneia♀
* Cleopatra VI Tryphaena♀
* Cleopatra VII Philopator♀
* Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator
* Arsinoe IV♀
* Ptolemy XIV Philopator
* Ptolemy XV Caesarion

Roman
(30 BC–313 AD)|

| XXXIV|

* Augustus
* Tiberius
* Caligula
* Claudius
* Nero
* Galba
* Otho
* Vitellius
* Vespasian
* Titus
* Domitian
* Nerva
* Trajan
* Hadrian
* Antoninus Pius
* Lucius Verus
* Marcus Aurelius
* Commodus
* Pertinax
* Pescennius Niger
* Septimius Severus
* Geta
* Caracalla
* Macrinus
* Diadumenian
* Elagabalus
* Severus Alexander
* Maximinus Thrax
* Gordian I
* Gordian II
* Pupienus
* Balbinus
* Gordian III
* Philip
* Decius
* Trebonianus Gallus
* Aemilianus
* Valerian
* Macrianus Minor
* Quietus
* Lucius Mussius Aemilianus
* Gallienus
* Claudius Gothicus
* Quintillus
* Aurelian
* Tacitus
* Probus
* Carus
* Carinus
* Numerian
* Diocletian
* Maximian
* Galerius
* Maximinus Daza

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Dynastic genealogies

* 1st
* 2nd
* 3rd
* 4th
* 11th
* 12th
* 18th
* 19th
* 20th
* 21st to 23rd
* 24th
* 25th
* 26th
* 27th
* 30th
* 31st
* Argead
* Ptolemaic

List of pharaohs

* v
* t
* e

First Dynasty of Ancient Egypt

Pharaohs|

* Menes/Narmer
* Hor-Aha
* Djer
* Djet
* Den
* Anedjib
* Semerkhet
* Qa'a

Regents|

* Neithhotep
* Merneith

Queen consorts|

* Benerib
* Herneith
* Penebui
* Nakhtneith
* Khenthap
* Semat
* Serethor
* Seshemetka
* Betrest

Officials|

* Amka
* Hemaka
* Sabef
* Meriiti

Other people|

* Ahaneith

Artefacts and
monuments|

* Narmer macehead
* Narmer palette
* Den seal impressions
* Abydos boats
* MacGregor plaque
* Mastabas S3503 and S3504

Capital|

* Thinis

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST

National|

* United States
* Israel

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