Hedju Hor
{{Short description|Egyptian ruler}}
{{Infobox pharaoh|name=Hedju-Hor|horus=Hedju-Hor
Ḥr.(w)-ḥḏw
|Horus=
|alt_name=Hor-Hedju
|dynasty=Dynasty 0 - (disputed)
|caption=A clay cutting of a hieroglyph of Hedju HorFischer, Henry Georg: Varia Aegyptiaca. In: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, (2). Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (1963), S. 33, Abb. 1.
|image=Hedju.png
|Successor=Ny-Hor?}}
Hedju Hor was a ruler in northern Egypt from the Predynastic Period whose name means 'the maces of Horus'.Eichhorn, Günther: {{cite web|url=http://www.soaringweb.org/egypt_pharaohs_proto.html|title=Egypt - Protodynastic Period - 3200 to 3100 BCE|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006173041/http://www.soaringweb.org/egypt_pharaohs_proto.html|archive-date=2019-10-06|url-status=dead}}Ludwig David Morenz: Bild-Buchstaben und symbolische Zeichen. Die Herausbildung der Schrift der hohen Kultur Altägyptens (= Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 205). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004; Academic Press, Fribourg (2004), {{ISBN|3-7278-1486-1}}.{{cite book|last=Leprohon|first=Ronald J|title=The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary|publisher=SBL Press|year=2013|isbn=978-158-983-736-2|page=23}} As very little information is known about him, this has caused a debate among historians regarding his social status.
Social status
Hedju Hor is only known from two clay jugs on which his serekh appears: one from Tura in the eastern Nile Delta and one from Abu Zeidan on the northeastern tip of the Nile Delta.{{cite web|url=http://www.narmer.pl/dyn/00en.htm|title=Ancient Egypt - Dynasty 0|website=www.narmer.pl|access-date=2019-10-06}}Fischer, Henry Georg: Varia Aegyptiaca . In: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, (2). Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake (1963), p. 44. Wolfgang Helck, who was an Egyptologist, held him as a Pharaoh of Dynasty 0 and identified him with Wash, who is known as the ruler defeated by Narmer on the Narmer Palette.{{cite book|last=Helck|first=Wolfgang|author-link=Wolfgang Helck|title=Untersuchungen zur Thinitenzeit|series=Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 45|year=1987|location=Wiesbaden}}, p. 98. This opinion was also later shared by historian Edwin van den Brink.{{cite book|editor-last=Spencer|editor-first=Alan J.|author-last=van den Brink|author-first=Edwin|chapter=The Incised Serekh-signs of Dynasties 0–1, Part I: Complete Vessels|title=Aspects of Early Egypt|year=1996|publisher=British Museum Press|location=London|pages=140–158|isbn=0714109991}}, p. 147. By contrast, Toby Wilkinson and Jochem Kahl both argue that Hedju Hor was not a pre-dynastic Pharaoh but, rather, a ruler of a small proto-state of the pre-dynastic era and have attributed to him the title King.Toby A.H. Wilkinson: Early Dynastic Egypt - Strategy, Security and Society. Routledge, London (1999), {{ISBN|0-415-18633-1}}. pp. 55-56. Hedju Hor also has no known tomb and is not found in the text of the Palermo Stone, which is a stone listing the oldest kings of Ancient Egypt.Hsu, Shih-Wei (2010) The Palermo Stone: the Earliest Royal Inscription from Ancient Egypt, Altoriental. Forsch., Akademie Verlag, 37(1), pp. 68–89.
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