Hedju Hor

Hedju Hor was a ruler in northern Egypt from the Predynastic Period whose name means 'the maces of Horus'.^[3][4][5] As very little information is known about him, this has caused a debate among historians regarding his social status.

Hedju-Hor
Hor-Hedju
A clay cutting of a hieroglyph of Hedju Hor[2]
Pharaoh
Successor	Ny-Hor?
Royal titulary Horus name
Dynasty	Dynasty 0 - (disputed)

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.^[6][7] 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.^[8] This opinion was also later shared by historian Edwin van den Brink.^[9] 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.^[10] 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.^[11]