Old Kingdom part 1

 

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With the IIIème dynasty, begin the period that the historians called the Old Kingdom that lasts 2700 BC to more or less -2350 BC. The power moves Northbound and will only revert Southbound in Thebes. Vercoutter makes little mention of Abydos during this period.
During the reign of Houni, last Pharaoh of the 3rd dynasty, several small pyramids have been built through the country, of which one in El-Amrah, to 8 km of Abydos.  Their ruins overage not 6 m high and their basis about twenty side meters.  Their destination seems dark.  Tombs of queens? Cenotaphs? Representations of the primordial mound next to solar temples? 

One must mention here that, irony of the fate, the only representation of king Kheops of the 4th dynasty is a small statue of 9 cm of found in Abydos whereas the documents note the king's huge statue of more than 7m of top that disappeared.

Then, Vercoutter doesn't mention Abydos  more during the 4th dynasty. During the 5th, he makes mention of a decree of king Neferirkare of taxes exemption for a temple, found in Abydos.

 

 

[Old Kingdom part 2]

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