Titulary
Horus Name |
Bakare "Soul of Ka" |
Nebty Name |
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Golden Horus Name |
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Praenomen |
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Nomen |
Nebkha |
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Manetho |
Bicheris |
King Lists |
Baka, Bakare |
Alternate Names |
Bikka, Baka |
Dates
manetho |
22 years |
swelim |
4 years |
piccione |
2550 -- 2548 BCE |
krauss |
c. 2520 |
von beckerath |
2521-2514 |
malek |
2493-2488 |
allen |
2494-2490 |
arnold |
2477-2472 |
Succession
Associated People
Burial Place
Monuments
Northern Pyramid at Zawiyet al-Aryan |
History
Most chronologies show Menkaure succeeding his father Khafre,
but some king lists do include a tiny, short reign by a pharaoh
Bikka or Baka between the two. There may have been some familial
falling-out, or it ma have been the normal way of succession
for Baka, as the oldest male in the family, to inherit the
throne before his younger cousin Menkaure. We know so little
about how the heir was selected : possibly, the oldest son
of the existing pharaoh ruled, possibly the oldest male in
the family (uncle or brother), possibly a lottery. Who knows?
Despite the short reign -- maybe as little as two or four
years -- he left a giant unfinished pyramid in Zawiyet-al-Aryan,
just north of the necropolis in Saqqara. Given the size
of the foundations (it was about 200m square and comparable to the size of the monuments of Khufu and Khafre in Giza), this was meant for a ruler with a long
reign ahead of him. It was originally excavated in the early
1900s and a large red-granite coffin was found inside the
burial chamber, with blocks of granite meant to be used for
the burial chamber. The coffin, although sealed, was empty,
probably having been resealed by restorers ina later dynasty
after tomb robbers cleared out the pyramid chambers.
The burial chamber appears to be a copy of the burial chamber
of Djoser, a free-standing granite burial chamber housing
a coffin at the bottom of an open shaft to deter grave robbers.
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pharaohs
Sneferu
Khufu (Cheops)
Kauab
Djedefre
khafre (Chephren)
Bakare
Menkaure
Shepseskaf
Djedefptah
monuments
Northern Pyramid at
Zawiyet-el-Aryan
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