Mykérinos — Wikipedia

Menkaour (Egyptian translitation mn-k3w-rˁ ), better known in the Hellenized form of its name Mykérinos (Greek: μυκερίνος), is an Egyptian king of the IV ^{It is} dynasty of the old empire. There is around -2500 ^{[ first ]} , he succeeds either Khéphren, or the ephemeral king builder of the unfinished pyramid of Zaouiet El-Aryan, that some researchers think they are his son Baka, and precedes Chepskaf. It is famous for having built the third pyramid of Giza as well as for magnificent statues, several triads, which were found there.

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Mykérinos is the son of Khéphren and the grandson of Khéops. A flint knife found in her mortuary temple mentions the mother of a king, Khâmerernebty  I ^re , suggesting that Khéphren and this queen were MyKerinos’ parents.

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The royal court included several half-brothers from MyKerinos. His brothers Nebemakhet, Douaenê, Nekaourê and Iounmin served as vizier during the reign of their brother. His brother Sékhemkarê was perhaps younger and became vizier after the death of Mykérinos.

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MyKerinos would have had at least two wives: Khâmerernebty  II et Rekhetr.

The Queen Khâmerernebty  II is known to be the daughter of Khâmerernebty  I ^re and Khounérê’s mother. The location of the tomb of Khounérê suggests that he was a son of MyKerinos, making his mother the wife of this king ^{[ 2 ] , [ 3 ]} .

Queen Rekhetrê is known for having been a daughter of Khéphren and as such the most likely identity of her husband is MyKérinos ^{[ 2 ]} .

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• Khounérê, as said above, seems to be his son ^{[ 4 ]} .
• Chepskaf, successor to MyKérinos, is perhaps also his son, but nothing is certain.
• Sekhemê is known by a statue and perhaps a son of Mykérinos.

A dead girl at the beginning of adulthood is mentioned by Herodotus. It was placed in a superbly decorated room of the palatial space of Saïs, in a wooden zoomorphic burial with hollowed golden layers in the shape of a kneeling cow cow cow were covered with adequate gold layers ^{[ 5 ]} .

The duration of MyKerinos’ reign is uncertain. The former Historian Manéthon attributes sixty-three years of reign to him, but it is surely an exaggeration. The royal cannon of Turin is damaged where it should present the duration of the reign of MyKerinos, but the traces allow a reconstruction of “….? + Eight years of reign”. Egyptologists think that eighteen years (or twenty-eight years old) was supposed to be written, which is generally accepted. A graffiti of a contemporary worker from the reign indicates “the year following the 11 ^{It is} Cost of cattle ”. If the cattle counts took place every two years (as tradition wants, at least until King Snéfrou), MyKerinos could have reigned for twenty-two years ^{[ 6 ]} .

In 2013, a fragment of a sphinx on which the name MyKerinos was written was discovered in Tel Hazor at the entrance to the Municipal Palace ^{[ 7 ]} .

The pyramid of MyKerinos in Giza was called Netjer-er-molkaourê , which means “Menkaourê is divine”. This pyramid is the smallest of the three pyramids of Giza, representing only a tenth of the volume of the largest pyramid, that of Khéops. This pyramid measures 103.4 m at the base and 65.5 m height ^{[ 8 ]} . Three subsidiary pyramids are associated with the MyKérinos pyramid. These pyramids are sometimes called G- III a (subsidiary pyramid is), g- III B (intermediate subsidiary pyramid) and G- III C (western subsidiary pyramid). In the chapel associated with the G- III A, the statue of a queen was found. It is possible that Khâmerernebty  II was buried in one of these pyramids ^{[ 3 ] , [ 9 ]} .

View taken from the MyKerinian pyramid of two of the three queen pyramids.