page_title: Iry-Hor
section_title: Identity
hierarchical_section_title: Iry-Hor / Identity
caption_attribution_description: English: Clay seal of Iry-Hor found in Narmer's tomb
context_page_description: Iry-Hor or Ro was a predynastic pharaoh of Upper Egypt during the 32nd century BC. Iry-Hor's existence was debated, with the Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson contesting the reading and signification of his name. However, continuing excavations at Abydos in the 1980s and 1990s and the discovery in 2012 of an inscription of Iry-Hor in the 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.
caption: Clay seal with the signs r-Ḥr.
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