ABSTRACT
Menes, according to Manetho the first king of the first historical dynasty, is named in the same position in the Table of Abydos and the Turin Canon. As to the date of the rise of the First Dynasty, and of Menes if he were indeed its founder: of several records in terms of the civil calendar of the heliacal rising of Sothis in the period of the Middle Kingdom, the earliest is on a papyrus fragment of a temple register from Lahun. With respect to places, Manetho describes Menes and his successors in the first two dynasties by the adjective Thinite, presumably implying a proper noun Thinis corresponding to Egyptian Tjeni and Coptic Tin, and meaning that these kings ruled in a city of this name or that they came from there ancestrally. If the custom of human sacrifice did exist in the First Dynasty, there is little evidence for it in Egypt in later times.
