Horus Bird (Pharaoh)
Bird is the dummy name of an ancient Egyptian King ( Pharaoh ) of the 1st dynasty, which could have ruled to 2850 BC.
About this ruler is virtually nothing is known. Its possible kinship relations and family ties are as unclear and controversial as its chronological position in the early dynasties.
Name and identity
Already at the name of this regent reigns in Egyptology great uncertainty, because the very few artifacts that could prove his existence, are severely damaged or the name of the ruler was written very carelessly, so that the name, written can not be clearly identified.
Thus, the majority of Egyptologists, including Wolfgang Helck and Peter Kaplony, at least agree to have to do it in the bird-like figure in Serech with a goose -like bird. Helck reads the name therefore as " Sa Hor " ( G38 ) or " Hor Geb " ( G39).
The Egyptologist Nabil Swelim however, reads the name as " Hor Ba " ( G29 ).
Findings and their possible interpretations
Chronologically assigned to this ruler accurately, Archaeologists and Egyptologists falls extremely difficult because King " bird" is occupied by only three vessel fragments, on which his name appears: The Shard RTII pl.8A, 6 was by Flinders Petrie in the king's grave in Qaa Abydos discovered. On her only the upper part of the Serech and the Horus falcon are obtained. The vessel fragments PDIV n.97 and n.108 PDIV however, were found in Saqqara and have become quite illegible due to abrasion, which after all, the shape of a bird very well comes to light on the latter Shard.
Since a building appears on the vessel fragments from Saqqara, which is only known from the reign of Qaa, go different Egyptologists such as Peter Kaplony, assume that King " bird" reigned for a very short time after Qaa. In the same time as " bird" falls also the name of King Sneferka, suspected chronologically between Qaa and Hetepsechemui.
After Helck and Kaplony it seems to have come to the throne disputes, culminating in the fact that the royal cemetery at Abydos closed and was even looted public between King " bird" and Seneferka. Corresponding traces and finds were discovered by Walter Bryan Emery. This also explains why, for a ruler Listings border on stone vessels abruptly with Qaa and were moved to other royal burials to Sakkara. The founder of the second dynasty, King Hetepsechemui, maybe went with military force against the two rulers before, triumphed, leaving at least the grave of Qaa get ready again. The name of King " bird" and Sneferka not appear in later king lists. Wolfgang Helck throws a supplement that Sneferka and " Bird" was apparently banned from the later records because of their Illegimität because their power struggles, the dynasty could perish.