Hedju-Hor
| Hedju-Hor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hor-Hedju, Hedju Hor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 A clay cutting of a hieroglyph of Hedju-Hor[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Successor | Ny-Hor? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | Dynasty 0 - (disputed) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hedju-Hor was a ruler in northern Egypt from the Predynastic Period whose name means 'the maces of Horus'.[3][4][5] As very little information is known about him, this has caused a debate among historians regarding his social status.
Social status
[edit]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.[6][7] Egyptologist Wolfgang Helck 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.[8] This opinion was also later shared by historian Edwin van den Brink.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11]
References
[edit]- Fischer, Henry Georg: Varia Aegyptiaca. In: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, (2). Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (1963), S. 33, Abb. 1.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Ludwig David Morenz: Bild-Buchstaben und symbolische Zeichen. Die Herausbildung der Schrift der hohen Kultur Altägyptens (= Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 205). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004; Academic Press, Fribourg (2004), ISBN 3-7278-1486-1.
- ↑ Leprohon, Ronald J (2013). The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary. SBL Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-158-983-736-2.
- ↑ "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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link), p. 98. - ↑ van den Brink, Edwin (1996). "The Incised Serekh-signs of Dynasties 0–1, Part I: Complete Vessels". In Spencer, Alan J. (ed.). Aspects of Early Egypt. London: British Museum Press. pp. 140–158. ISBN 0714109991., p. 147.
- ↑ Toby A.H. Wilkinson: Early Dynastic Egypt - Strategy, Security and Society. Routledge, London (1999), ISBN 0-415-18633-1. pp. 55-56.
- ↑ Hsu, Shih-Wei (2010) The Palermo Stone: the Earliest Royal Inscription from Ancient Egypt, Altoriental. Forsch., Akademie Verlag, 37(1), pp. 68–89.
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