Iry-Hor

Iry-Hor
Iry-Hor
Ro, Irj-Hor, Iri(-Hor)
	Signs r-Ḥr inscribed on a large vessel from the tomb of Iry-Hor, Ashmolean Museum.
Pharaoh
Reign	Early to Late 32nd century BC
Predecessor	uncertain; Crocodile? Scorpion I? Double Falcon?
Successor	Ka
Horus name
Horus name
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Burial	Chambers B1, B2, Umm el-Qa'ab
Dynasty	Dynasty 0

Iry-Hor (or Ro) was a predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt during the 32nd century BC. Excavations at Abydos in the 1980s and 1990s and the discovery in 2012 of an inscription of Iry-Hor in Sinai confirmed his existence. Iry-Hor is the earliest ruler of Egypt known by name and is sometimes cited as the earliest-living historical person known by name.

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