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Titulary what's this?
Horus Name Weneg
Nebti Name Nebti Khet
Nomen Wadjnes "Fresh of Tongue", although probably an error.
   
Manetho Tlas, Thlas
King Lists Wdj-nes, Wadjnes
Alternate Names  
Dates what's this?
manetho reigned 17 years
piccione 278-2772
  2783-2780 BCE
von beckerath 2742-2735 BCE
malek 2707-2700 BCE
redford 2754-2734 BCE
Succession
Predecessor may have preceded Ninetjer in Lower Egypt
Successor possibly Ninetjer
Associated People
unknown  
Burial Place
Saqqara, probably. S3014 contains his name
Monuments
unknown
History

Weneg is normally considered to have ruled after Ninetjer, in a period of unrest after the centralized government started to collapse. A few names pop up, but there is very little solid information about succession for a few years. It is possible that Weneg was actually a pharaoh in Lower Egypt just prior to Ninetjer -- so we're honestly not sure if he ruled before, during the same period, or after Ninetjer. Things were a bit mixed up.

 

His name is a bit confusing. The flower-sign used to write his name "wng" was early on mistakenly replaced by a papyrus-plant glyph, changing his name to wadj-nes. This was translated into Greek by Manetho into "outgot-las", which resulted in "Tlas" in the transcriptions. We can only imagine that many other pharaoh's names suffered the same fate over the years.

His name never shows up in a serekh, but is found in a dozen or more places in Saqqara. He is listed in the kings lists, though, which gives him some legitimacy. He probably had a very short reign -- maybe only a few years.

Weneg's tomb has not been found, but is probably somewhere in the area of Sekhemket's or to the east. It probably isn't a large tomb, given his relative unimportance, but so far, nothing has been conclusively identified. One mastaba (S3014) contains a reference to his name.

 

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pharaohs

Hetepsekhemwy
Reneb (Nebre)
Weneg
Ninetjer
Sened
Nubnefer
Neferkare
Neferkaseker
Hudjefa I
Peribsen-Sekhemib
Khasekhemwy

monuments

Tomb 3014, Saqqara