Djet
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| Djet | |||||||||||||||
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| Africanus: Uenephês Eusebius: Uenephês, Vavenephis | |||||||||||||||
 Serekh containing the name of Djet, on display at the Louvre |
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| Pharaoh of Egypt | |||||||||||||||
| Reign | unknown, 1st Dynasty | ||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Djer | ||||||||||||||
| Successor | Den | ||||||||||||||
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| Consort(s) | Merneith possibly Ahaneith[1] |
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| Children | Den | ||||||||||||||
| Burial | Tomb Z, Cemetery B, Umm el-Qa'ab | ||||||||||||||
Djet, also known as Wadj, Zet, and Uadji (in Greek possibly the pharaoh known as Uenephes or possibly Atothis), was the fourth Egyptian pharaoh of the first dynasty. Djet's Horus name means "Horus Cobra."[2]
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[edit] Legacy
Little is known about his reign, but he has become famous because of the survival, in well-preserved form, of one of his artistically refined tomb steles. It is carved in relief with Djet's Horus name, and shows that the distinct Egyptian style already had become fully developed at that time. His reign was listed in the lost or destroyed sections of the Palermo Stone.
Djet's queen was his sister Merneith. There is a possibility that a lady called Ahaneith was also his wife. Djet and Merneith's son was Den, and their grandson was Anedjib.
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[edit] References
- ^ List of tombs at Abydos
- ^ Peter Clayton, Chronicle of the Pharaohs, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2006 paperback, p.16
[edit] Bibliography
- Toby A. H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, Routledge, London/New York 1999, ISBN 0-415-18633-1, 73-74
- Toby A. H. Wilkinson, Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt: The Palermo Stone and Its Associated Fragments, (Kegan Paul International), 2000.
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