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Setting up of the state’s structures was done, in Egypt of 4th millennium, at the end of a political centralization process which we try to render: confederation, than federation directed by only chief (dynasty 0), and finally absolute and sacred monarchy established by Narmer-Meny, last king of the dynasty 0 and first one of the Ist dynasty, the "Founder", epithet shared with his successor, Aha. From iconological analysis, this paper includes the description of three successive phases of the power’s centralization, followed by political history of the dynasty 0 and the demonstration according to which the important Narmer’s documents, especially his famous palette in Cairo Museum, register the encoding of the new institutional data as fundamental principles of the pharaonic’s ideology.