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King Scorpion
Other spelling: Serket
Ancient Egyptian: Sāriqu
King, or two kings, of Upper Egypt, ruling around 3150 BCE.
There are two pieces of evidence of his/their existence. The first is a mace-tip found at Hierakonpolis. Here the royal figure is identified by a scorpion and rosette ideograms. He wears the white crown of Upper Egypt. The second evidence is a 12-chambered tomb at Abydos (Tomb u-j at Umm el-Qa'ab) in which there were ink inscriptions of the scorpion hieroglyph. Researches claim that this tomb was of another king than the one on the mace-tip, hence the theory that there were two king Scorpions.
He/They ruled prior to Narmer, and may have represented a competing royal house to Narmer. Former theories that Narmer and Scorpion were two names for the same king seem to have been abandoned.
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