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Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt > Wneg

Wneg

After King Ninetjer something happened to the Egyptian society that made many centralised functions collapse or decline. During this period of unrest a few names pop up on scanty fragments and among them a king called Wneg (Also called: Weneg - Uneg - Wadjnes - Horus Za - Horus Sa - Wnegsekhemwy).

He was probably the pharaoh / king preceding Ninetjer at least in Lower Egypt, because a division of the country for a short period cannot be excluded. The Turin Canon has an entry with an unreadable name possibly to be his with no figure of his regin but one for his age: 54 years.

His Horus-name (in a serek) is not known, but remaining form are found in a dozen inscriptions, most of them from Saqqara. Though his reign probably was a very short one (perhaps not more then a couple of years) his name is recorded in later King Lists like from the temple in Abydos and the Saqqara list. This indicates that despite the lack of earthly remains he probably had a position in the legends for later generations, when they were commemorating the pharaohs / kings from the passed.

The scribes at that time misread his flower-sign (to be read: WNG) and replaced it with a papyrus plant making the sound: Wadj-nes, meaning "fresh of tongue".

This was translated into Greek language (ougot-las) by Manetho, who gave the king the name Tlas. In other words - a corruption on more than one occasion during the flow of time.

Because he had a very short reign, we can hardly expect that his tomb is a mass of underground galleries like some of his predecessors. If he hasn't taken over an older construction and made it his own we can look for a monument of more modest size, maybe a mastaba of substance.

The area where to look for his tomb is probably around the other galleries east of the pyramid of King Sekhemhkhet. This monument lies where the topography is unsuitable. A good guess might be that the area to the east already was occupied by superstructures (mastaba-like?) from dynasty 2 tombs, and that these were removed in later times.

The substructures should then still be detectable, but this place has not been properly investigated. There are candidates to be his tomb and in one mastaba (S3014) may reveal Wneg's name.