Hedju Hor
| Hedju-Hor | |
|---|---|
| Hor-Hedju | |
![A clay cutting of a hieroglyph of Hedju Hor[1]](/File:Hedju.png) A clay cutting of a hieroglyph of Hedju Hor[1] | |
| Pharaoh | |
| Successor | Ny-Hor? |
| Dynasty | Dynasty 0 - (disputed) |
Hedju Hor was a ruler in northern Egypt from the
As very little information is known about him, this has caused a debate among historians regarding his social status.Social status
Hedju Hor is only known from two clay jugs on which his serekh appears: one from Tura in the eastern Nile Delta and one from Abu Zeidan on the northeastern tip of the Nile Delta.[5][6] Wolfgang Helck, who was an Egyptologist, held him as a Pharaoh of Dynasty 0 and identified him with Wash, who is known as the ruler defeated by Narmer on the Narmer Palette.[7] This opinion was also later shared by historian Edwin van den Brink.[8] By contrast, Toby Wilkinson and Jochem Kahl both argue that Hedju Hor was not a pre-dynastic Pharaoh but, rather, a ruler of a small proto-state of the pre-dynastic era and have attributed to him the title King.[9] Hedju Hor also has no known tomb and is not found in the text of the Palermo Stone, which is a stone listing the oldest kings of Ancient Egypt.[10]
References
- ^ Fischer, Henry Georg: Varia Aegyptiaca. In: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, (2). Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (1963), S. 33, Abb. 1.
- ^ Eichhorn, Günther: "Egypt - Protodynastic Period - 3200 to 3100 BCE". Archived from the original on 2019-10-06.
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- ^ "Ancient Egypt - Dynasty 0". www.narmer.pl. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ^ Fischer, Henry Georg: Varia Aegyptiaca . In: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, (2). Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (1963), p. 44.
- ^ Helck, Wolfgang (1987). Untersuchungen zur Thinitenzeit. Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 45. Wiesbaden.
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- ^ Hsu, Shih-Wei (2010) The Palermo Stone: the Earliest Royal Inscription from Ancient Egypt, Altoriental. Forsch., Akademie Verlag, 37(1), pp. 68–89.