Fish (pharaoh)

{{Short description|Predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt (disputed)}}{{Infobox pharaoh|Name=Fish|Dynasty=Dynasty 0|Reign=Unknown, likely never existed|Predecessor=Unknown|Successor=Unknown}}

Fish was thought to be a ruler of the Lower Egypt or a part of Lower Egypt during the late prehistoric period.{{Cite book |last=Schraten |first=Jürgen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=diglBAAAQBAJ&q=Storch&pg=PA59 |title=Zur Aktualität von Jan Assmann: Einleitung in sein Werk |date=2010-11-11 |publisher=Springer-Verlag |isbn=978-3-531-92673-5 |language=de}}{{Cite book |last=Altenmüller |first=Hartwig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsB4DwAAQBAJ&dq=Michael+H%C3%B6veler-M%C3%BCller:+Zu+den+fr%C3%BChzeitlichen+K%C3%B6nigen+%E2%80%9EFingerschnecke%E2%80%9C+und+%E2%80%9EFisch%E2%80%9C+aus+dem+Grab+U-j+in+Umm+el-Qaab.+In:+Studien+zu+Alt%C3%A4gyptischen+Kultur&pg=PA159 |title=Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Band 37 |last2=Kloth |first2=Nicole |date=2008-01-01 |publisher=Helmut Buske Verlag |isbn=978-3-87548-937-8 |language=de}} He most likely never existed and is a modern invention due to misunderstanding of early hieroglyphic signs.Barry Kemp (a1), Andrew Boyce and James Harrell. The Colossi from the Early Shrine at Coptos in Egypt, in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal Volume 10, Issue 2, April 2000, 233. Fish is known only from the fish hieroglyph and was possibly a king of the prehistoric Dynasty 0{{Cite web |title=Dynasty 0 - Dynasty Zero |url=https://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/hesyra/dynasty0.htm |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=xoomer.virgilio.it}} of Predynastic Egypt.Felde, Rolf: Gottheiten, Pharaonen und Beamte im alten Ägypten, Norderstedt 2017, page 125.

Fish is thought to have ruled late in the 31st century BC.{{Cite book |last=Altenmüller |first=Hartwig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsB4DwAAQBAJ&dq=Michael+H%C3%B6veler-M%C3%BCller:+Zu+den+fr%C3%BChzeitlichen+K%C3%B6nigen+%E2%80%9EFingerschnecke%E2%80%9C+und+%E2%80%9EFisch%E2%80%9C+aus+dem+Grab+U-j+in+Umm+el-Qaab.+In:+Studien+zu+Alt%C3%A4gyptischen+Kultur&pg=PA159 |title=Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Band 37 |last2=Kloth |first2=Nicole |date=2008-01-01 |publisher=Helmut Buske Verlag |isbn=978-3-87548-937-8 |language=de}}

He is known only from artefacts that bear his mark, a hieroglyphic fish symbol. The dates and geographic extent of his rule are not known nor is his actual name.