Finger Snail

Pharaoh Finger snail was an ancient Egyptian ruler (Pharaoh) from the pre-Dynastic period of prehistoric Egypt.[1][2][3] It is disputed whether he really existed as the reading of his name as king's name is far from certain. Most scholars do not read the known signs as king's name.[4] He may have been the first king of a united upper Egypt.[5][6]

The name is preserved in the inscriptions in the tomb U-j of King Scorpion I in Umm el-Qa'ab.[7]

References
  1. Thomas Kühn: The Origin of Egyptian Writing in the Predynastic Period. In: The predynastic period. Kemet issue 4/2001. Kemet-Verlag, 2001, ISSN 0943-5972, pp. 32-33.
  2. Michael Höveler-Müller: "On the early kings "Finger Snail" and "Fish" from the tomb U-j in Umm el-Qaab". In: Studies on Ancient Egyptian Culture (SAK) 37. Buske, Hamburg 2008, pp. 159–167.
  3. Hermann A. Schlögl: Das alte Ägypten. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-406-48005-5, p. 59.
  4. Jochem Kahl (2006): Inscriptional Evidence For The Relative Chronology Of Dyns. 0–2 In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, And David A. Warburton (editors), Ancient Egyptian Chronology, Brill: Leiden, Boston, ISBN 9789004113855, p. 96
  5. Jürgen Schraten, Zur Aktualität von Jan Assmann: Einleitung in sein Werk (Springer-Verlag, 11.11.2010) page 59.
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  7. https://nefershapiland.de/Skorpion%20I.htm,


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