Ni-Hor

Name of Ni-Hor
Vessel carving with the name of Ni-Hor
Horus name	Hor-ni / Hor-nu Ḥr-nj / Ḥr-nw He belongs to Horus / hunter of Horus

Ni-Hor , actually Hor-ni , is the name of a Lower Egyptian king ( pharaoh ) during the pre-dynastic era . Its evidence is very poor and its existence is doubted by some research.

supporting documents

Tarchan Tura Naqada

Locations

Ni-Hors's name appears mainly on clay and stone vessels found in graves near Tarchan , Tura and Naqada .

Name reading and interpretation

Views in Egyptology are divided on the actual reading and interpretation of the name . Flinders Petrie was undecided and assigned the character to the Nar fish in the name of Pharaoh Narmer due to the unclean representation of the character . Thomas Schneider , Günter Dreyer and Werner Kaiser, on the other hand, consider the Ni-Hor reading to be the most likely, since bone finds in the Tarchan graves date back to a time when Narmer was not yet alive. Egyptologist Ludwig D. Morenz, on the other hand, warns against defining any reading option, as the sign in question does not reveal any further details and is possibly either part of the Serechs or represents a completely different symbol.

See also

• List of pharaohs

literature

• Jochem Kahl : Inscriptional Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Dyn. 0-2. In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 90-04-11385-1 , p. 95 ( online ).
• Walter Bryan Emery : Archaic Egypt . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1961, ISBN 0-14-020462-8 , pp. 93, fig. 56 .
• Toby AH Wilkinson : Early Dynastic Egypt - Strategy, Security and Society . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18633-1 .
• Ludwig David Morenz: picture letters and symbolic signs. The development of the script of the high culture of ancient Egypt (= Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 205). Friborg 2004, ISBN 3-7278-1486-1 .
• Werner Kaiser, Günter Dreyer: Umm el-Qaab . Follow-up examinations in the early royal cemetery. 2. Preliminary report. In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) No. 38, von Zabern, Mainz 1982.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to Walter Bryan Emery: Archaic Egypt. P. 93, fig. 56.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ludwig David Morenz: Image letters and symbolic signs. P. 31 & 32.
3. ^ ^{A b} Werner Kaiser & Günter Dreyer: Umm el-Qaab - Follow-up examinations in the early royal cemetery . Pp. 211-269.
4. ↑ So also z. B. Toby AH Wilkinson: Early Dynastic Egypt . P. 54.

predecessor	Office	successor
unsure	Pharaoh of Egypt 0th Dynasty	unsure