Qa'a

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NAME	Qa'a
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	{{{Alt}}}
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Pharaoh of Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH	{{{Birth}}}
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ancient Egypt
DATE OF DEATH	{{{Death}}}
PLACE OF DEATH	Ancient Egypt

Preceded by: Semerkhet	Pharaoh of Egypt 1st Dynasty	Succeeded by: Hotepsekhemwy
Qa'a
Stela of Qa'a at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Reign	26 years
Burial	Tomb in Umm el-Qa'ab, Abydos
Major Monuments	Tomb in Umm el-Qa'ab

Qáa was the last king of the First dynasty of Egypt. He had a fairly large tomb in Abydos which measures 98.5 X 75.5 feet or 30 X 23 meters. (Clayton:p.25) Manetho gives him a reign of 26 years in his Epitome which is supported by the large size of this ruler's burial site at Abydos. A seal impression bearing Hotepsekhemwy's name was found near the entrance of the tomb of Qa'a (Tomb Q) by the German Archaeological Institute in the mid-1990's.^[1] This discovery has been viewed as evidence that Qáa was buried--and therefore succeeded--by Hotepsekhemwy as Manetho states. The tomb of one of Qáa's state officials at Saqqara--a certain noblemen named Merka--contained a stela with many titles. There is a second sed festival attested. This fact plus the high quality of a number of royal stelas depicting the king implies that Qáa's reign was a fairly stable and prosperous period of time.

Contents 1 Discovery 2 Footnotes 3 Further readings 4 See also

[edit] Discovery

A number of year labels have also been discovered dating to his reign at the First Dynasty burial site of Umm el-Qa'ab in Abydos. Qa'a is believed to have ruled Egypt around 2960 BC.

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] Further readings

• Peter Clayton, Chronicle of the Pharaohs, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1994.
• Toby A. H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, Routledge, London/New York 1999, ISBN 0-415-18633-1, 80-81

[edit] See also

• Pharaoh
• List of Pharaohs
• First dynasty of Egypt