Hedju-Hor
Egyptian ruler
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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.
| 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.[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]
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