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Also known as Den (Pharaoh)
Horus name of an early Egyptian king
I don't have enough context to write an accurate overview. The context provided only identifies "Den" as a Horus name of an early Egyptian king, but doesn't explain what a Horus name is, when Den ruled, or why this king matters historically. I would need additional information to create an informative 2-sentence overview for a general reader.
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Key facts
- Reign
- 42 years, starting c. 2970 BC
- Coregency
- Merneith
- Predecessor
- Djet , Merneith
- Successor
- Anedjib
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Egypt
- Spouse
- Betrest
- Child
- Anedjib
- Father
- Djet
- Mother
- Merneith
- Occupation
- statesperson
- Position held
- pharaoh
- Family
- First Dynasty of Egypt
- Noble title
- pharaoh
- Image
- Den1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Den (pharaoh)
- date of death
- 2995-01-01
- date of birth
- 3000-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Den (pharaoh)
- place of burial
- Umm el-Qa'ab
- name in hiero markup
- D46:n
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- denier
- time period
- First Dynasty of Egypt
- replaces
- Merneith
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Golden Horus
Prenomen
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Den” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.