Iry-Hor

Iry-Hor
Ro, Irj-Hor, Iri(-Hor)
Signs r-Ḥr inscribed on a large vessel from the tomb of Iry-Hor, Ashmolean Museum
Signs r-Ḥr inscribed on a large vessel from the tomb of Iry-Hor, Ashmolean Museum
Pharaoh
Reignc. 3170 BC[1]
Naqada IIIB2
Royal titulary
Horus name
Iry-Hor
r-Ḥr
Companion of Horus
G5
D21
BurialChambers B1 and B2, Umm el-Qa'ab, Egypt
DynastyDynasty 0

Iry-Hor (or Ro;[2] fl. c. 3170 BC) was a predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt during the 32nd century BC.[1] Excavations at Abydos in the 1980s and 1990s[3][4][5] and the discovery in 2012 of an inscription of Iry-Hor in Sinai confirmed his existence.[1] Iry-Hor is the earliest ruler of Egypt known by name and is sometimes cited as the earliest-living historical person known by name.[6]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference talle was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Petrie, Flinders (1900). The Royal tombs of the earliest dynasties. pp. 29 & 30.
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  4. ^ Kaiser, Werner; Dreyer, Günter (1993). "Umm el-Qaab. Nachuntersuchungen im frühzeitlichen Königsfriedhof 5./6. Vorbericht". Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo (MDAIK) (49): 56.
  5. ^ Kaiser, Werner; Dreyer, Günter (1996). "Umm el-Qaab. Nachuntersuchungen im frühzeitlichen Königsfriedhof 7./8. Vorbericht". Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo (MDAIK) (52): 48–57 and taf. 9.
  6. ^ Odenwald, Sten (August 15, 2014). "Who Was the First Named Human?". Huffpost. Retrieved 29 June 2019.