Double falcon

Double falcon in hieroglyphics
Double falcon

Doppelfalke was a predynastic ruler of the 0th Dynasty , who lived around 3200 BC. Ruled. Information about its chronological classification in the prehistoric period of Egyptian history or about the duration of his reign is not yet possible.

supporting documents

Double falcon is mainly detectable in the Nile Delta region of Lower Egypt, which suggests that his realm was limited to them. A single document comes from Abydos . The finds that bear his name are mainly clay and stone vessels and come from El Beda , Tura , El-Mehemdia and the north-westernmost region of Sinai .

Name and identity

Double falcon royal Serech is unique in its representation, because it is crowned by two Horus falcons . The falcons look at each other. What is striking is the fact that the “ceiling beam” of the Serech is sharply bent and does not show the usual horizontal line. Each of the hawks sits on its own tip. M. Jean Clédat , Günter Dreyer and Edwin van den Brink suspect a deeper symbolism behind it . The two falcons could mean Lower Egypt and the Sinai , since double falcon seems to have ruled in the latter too. Dreyer is reminded of the Gardiner sign N26 (two mountain peaks) in the representation of the "buckled Serech" and reads the name as "Dju-Hor" ("Mountain of Horus"). Van den Brink, on the other hand, reads the name as "Hor-Nebui" and refers to a palette in the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva , on which a standard with the two falcons on it can be seen.

See also

• List of pharaohs

literature

• Eva-Maria Engel: Another example of the double falcon on a serech . In: Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum. No. 2, 2005, pp. 65-69.
• Francesco Raffaele: Dynasty 0. In: Aegyptica Helvetica. (AH) Volume 17, Basel / Geneva 2003, pp. 99-141; especially p. 116ff. Double falcon. ( Full text as PDF file ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eva-Maria Engel: Another evidence for the double falcon on a serech. 2005, pp. 65-69.
2. ↑ ^{a b} M. Jean Clédat : Les vases de El-Béda. In: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte. (ASAE) Volume 13, Le Caire 1914, pp. 115-121; Günter Dreyer , Werner Kaiser : Umm el-Qaab. Follow-up examinations in the early royal cemetery. 2. Preliminary report In: Communications of the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) No. 38, von Zabern, Mainz 1982, pp. 211-269.
3. ^ Günter Dreyer: A vessel with an incised mark by Narmer. In: MDAIK No. 55. von Zabern, Berlin 1999, p. 6, fig. 1.
4. ^ Edwin (Cornelis Martinus) van den Brink: The Pottery-Incised Serekh-Signs of Dynasties 0-1. Part II: Fragments and Additional Complete Vessels. In: Archéo Nil. No. 11, 2002, p. 114.

predecessor	Office	successor
unsure	King of Egypt 0th Dynasty	unsure