Finger Snail

{{Short description|Possible Ancient Egyptian king}}

{{Infobox pharaoh|Name=Finger Snail|Dynasty=Dynasty 0|Reign=Uncertain, possibly never existed|consort=Unknown|Children=Unknown|Predecessor=Unknown|Successor=Unknown}}

Pharaoh Finger Snail was an ancient Egyptian ruler from the pre-dynastic period of prehistoric Egypt.{{cite journal |first=Thomas |last=Kühn |title=The Origin of Egyptian Writing in the Predynastic Period |journal=Kemet |issue=4/2001 |year=2001 |issn=0943-5972 |pages=32–33}}{{cite journal |first=Michael |last=Höveler-Müller |title=On the early kings 'Finger Snail' and 'Fish' from the tomb U-j in Umm el-Qaab |journal=Studies on Ancient Egyptian Culture |issue=37 |location=Hamburg |publisher=Buske |year=2008 |pages=159–167}}{{cite book |first=Hermann A. |last=Schlögl |title=Das alte Ägypten |publisher=Beck |location=Munich |year=2008 |isbn=978-3-406-48005-8 |page=59}} It is disputed whether he really existed as the reading of his name as a king's name is far from certain. Most scholars do not read the known signs as a king's name.{{cite book |first=Jochem |last=Kahl |year=2006 |contribution=Inscriptional Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Dyns. 0–2 |editor1-first=Erik |editor1-last=Hornung |editor2-first=Rolf |editor2-last=Krauss |editor3-first=David A. |editor3-last=Warburton |title=Ancient Egyptian Chronology |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden and Boston |isbn=9789004113855 |page=96}} He may have been the first king of a united upper Egypt.{{cite book |first=Jürgen |last=Schraten |title=Zur Aktualität von Jan Assmann: Einleitung in sein Werk |publisher=Springer |date=11 November 2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=diglBAAAQBAJ&q=Storch&pg=PA59 |page=59|isbn=9783531926735 }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsB4DwAAQBAJ |title=Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur |volume=37

|first1=Hartwig |last1=Altenmüller |first2=Nicole |last2=Kloth |publisher=Helmut Buske |year=2008 |isbn=9783875489378}}

The name is preserved in the inscriptions in the tomb U-j of King Scorpion I in Umm el-Qa'ab.{{cite web |url=https://nefershapiland.de/Skorpion%20I.htm |first1=Margret |last1=Pirzer |first2=J. H. |last2=Pirzer |title=Skorpion L |website=Nefershapiland|access-date=27 March 2021}}{{better source needed|reason=poor quality|date=March 2021}}