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Was King Narmer Menes?1 Was King Narmer Menes?1 Josep Cervelló-Autuori, Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim Orient Antic, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona n 1963, A . J. Arkell publ i s h ed a short and the findings of the last few dec ades make it well - k n own paper, “Was King Scorp i on po s s i ble to take up again and recon s i der the IMen e s ? ”,2 in wh i ch he propo s ed to iden- probl em of the iden ti ty of Menes from a tify the late - predy n a s tic king Scorp i on wi t h n ew pers pective . the “ Men e s” of the Ramessid and Ma n et h o- In 1986 and 1996, G. Dreyer published two nian royal lists. In the famous As h m o l e a n i m portant seal impre s s i ons with lists of m aceh e ad , S corp i on is shown we a ring the k i n gs from the royal cem etery of Umm el - wh i te crown , while on the Hi era kon po l i s Q a a b, in Abydo s , wh ere the German m a ceh e ad , the king repre s e n ted is we a ri n g Arch aeo l ogical In s ti tute of Ca i ro has been the red crown . Arkell su gge s ted “re ad i n g” digging for the last three decades.3 the very deteri ora ted rel i ef traces before the The first (f i g . 1) , found in the tomb of Den , k i n g’s face on this latter obj ect as a ro s e t te con t a i n s , a rra n ged in a single line and repe a- and a scorp i on , that is, as the “n a m e” of ted in two or three regi s ters , the Horu s King Scorp i on su ch as it appe a rs on the names of the kings of the first half of t h e Ashmolean maceh e ad . Thu s , the latter had F i rst Dy n a s ty, that is,Na rm er,Ah a , D j er,D j et to be rega rded as the first king of Upper and and Den , as well as the name of Q u een Lower Egypt and, t h erefore , i den ti f i ed wi t h Meretn ei t , preceded by the m w t - n s w ti t l e . the first name from the royal lists: Men e s . The kings’ names are headed by the falcon , Forty ye a rs have passed since this paper, a n d but not placed inside a sere k h.The names of the arch aeo l ogical evi den ce on the one hand the first three kings , Na rm er, Aha and Djer, and the ep i s tem o l ogical con text on the a re preceded by a men ti on of the funera r y o t h e r have com p l ete ly ch a n ged . Above all , god Kh en t a m en tiu , whose name is wri t ten 1 . In this arti cl e , I expand on some of the con clu s i ons alre ady pre s en ted at the VIII In tern a tional Co n gress of E gyptol o gi s t s h el d in Ca i ro in Ma rch 2000: J. Cervell ó - Autu ori , Na rm er, Menes and the Seals from Abydo s , i n : Z . Hawass and L . P i n ch - Brock (ed s . ) , E g yptol o gy at the Dawn of the 21st Cen tu ry. Pro ce ed i n gs of the Ei ghth In tern a tional Co n g ress of E g yptol o- gi s t s , C a i ro, 2 0 0 0 , 3 vo l s . , Ca i ro - New York , 2 0 0 3 , vo l . 2 : Hi s to ry, Rel i gi o n , 1 6 8 - 1 7 5 . 2 . A . J. Arkell , Was King Scorp i on Men e s ? , An t i q u i ty3 7 , 1 9 6 3 , 3 1 - 3 5 , p l s . I I I - V. 3 . G . D reyer, Ein Si egel der frühzei t l i ch en Königs n e k ropole von Abydo s , M DA I K 4 3 , 1 9 8 6 , 33-43 (figs . 1 - 4 ; p l s . 3 - 5 ) ; G . D reyer, E - M . E n gel , U. Ha r tu n g, T. Hi k ade , E . Ch . K ö h l er and F. Pu m pen m ei er, Nachu n tersu chu n gen im frühzei t l i ch en K ö n i g s f ri ed h of . 7 . / 8 . Vorberi ch t , M DA I K 5 2 , 1 9 9 6 , 11-81 [72-3; f i g.2 6 ; p l . 1 4 . b - c ] . n°15 - décembre 2005 ● ARCHÉO-NIL 31 Josep Cervelló-Autuori Fig. 1 with the ideogra m - determ i n a tive of the Den , Horu s - D j et , Horu s - D j er, Horu s - Ah a , rec u m bent jackal fo ll owed by the ph on eti c Horu s - Na rm er ”. s i gns mn, tyw a n d x n t ( y ) . In con tra s t , the last To begin wi t h , it is worth noting that in the t wo kings cited on the seal, D j et and Den , a re t wo seals the order of su cce s s i on of the kings not preceded by the men ti on of Kh e n t a- is the same and that both sequ en ces start m en tiu . The sequ en ce therefore re ad s : with Na rm er. “ Kh en t a m en tiu , Horu s - Na rm er, Kh e n t a- Af ter the first seal appe a red , D reyer inter- mentiu, Horu s - Ah a , Kh en t a m en tiu , Horus- preted the three referen ces to Kh en t a m en tiu D j er, Horu s - D j et , Horu s - Den , Mo t h er- of - as allu s i ons to kings whose names wo u l d the-King Meretneit.” h ave been for go t ten because they were no The second seal (f i g . 2) , found in the tom b longer worshipped in the Abydos necropo- of Q a a , the last king of the First Dy n a s ty, l i s : the name of the funera ry dei ty of the contains the Horus names of a ll the kings of n ec ropolis would serve as a sort of “ w i l d this dy n a s ty, also arra n ged in a single line, c a rd ”. According to Dreyer, “Athothis I”, a a l t h o u gh in reverse order,repe a ted in two re- name he takes from Ma n etho and Era to s- gi s ters , preceded by the falcon and wi t h o ut t h en e s , 4 would be one of these for go t ten the sere k h repre s en t a ti on . The men ti on of k i n gs , who would have rei g n ed bet ween Ah a Kh en t a m en tiu appe a rs aga i n , but on ly on ce and Djer. Nevert h el e s s , his idea is based on at one end of the list, as if presiding over it, an apri ori : the iden ti f i c a ti on of Menes wi t h and with a slight gra phic va ri a ti on (a t bet- Aha and of “Athothis II” (the “su cce s s or ” of ween the signs mn and t y w) . In this case, Me- Athothis I in Era to s t h enes) with Djer,5 s o retn eit is not men ti on ed . The sequ en ce the- that what he calls “Athothis I”has no corre s- refore re ad s : “ K h en t a m en tiu , Horu s - Q a a , pon dent in the con tem pora ry doc u m en t a- Horu s - Sem erk h et , Horu s - An ed j i b, Horu s - ti on , wh i ch leads him to say that the Horu s 4 . W. G . Wad d ell , Ma n et h o, Loeb Classical Libra r y 350, Ca m b ri d ge (Ma s s achu s et t s ) - Lon don , 1 9 8 0 , 28-33 (Ma n et h o ) , 214-215 (Eratosthenes). 5 . C f . W. Hel ck , Un tersu ch u n gen zur T h i n i ten z eit ( Ä A 4 5 ) , Wi e s b aden , 1 9 8 7 , 1 0 0 - 1 0 1 .
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