Merikar

Hieroglyphic Name:
Merikar Hieroglyphic Name

Merikar (date unknown) was the ruler  of  the  Herakleopolitan Ninth Dynasty (2134 B.C.E.). He was belike the son of Khety III. The instructions for merikare, a didactic document attributed by scholars to  his  father,  was  saved  for  him  reportedly,  although the paternity has not been proven. The text concerns the events of Khety III's reign, a point in which the Inyotefs were beginning their assaults on the Herakleopolitans. Khety III sorrows many issues that took place, and he  speaks  of  the  ideals  and  the  feel  that  the  rulers and  themes  should  take  in  order  to  attain  spiritual due date.

Merikar  comes out  to  have  been  middle-aged  when Khety  bequeathed  him  the  Herakleopolitan  throne.  He faced growing tensions with Thebes in an uncertain political era of transfer, but he died before the armies of Montuhotep II raised  upon  his  capital.  ITY was  his replacement. Merikar's mortuary pyramid was made near Memphis City.


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