Fish | |
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Pharaoh | |
Reign | Unknown, likely never existed |
Predecessor | Unknown |
Successor | Unknown |
Dynasty | Dynasty 0 |
Fish was thought to be a ruler of the Lower Egypt or a part of Lower Egypt during the late prehistoric period. [1] [2] He most likely never existed and is a modern invention due to misunderstanding of early hieroglyphic signs. [3] Fish is known only from the fish hieroglyph and was possibly a king of the prehistoric Dynasty 0 [4] of Predynastic Egypt. [5]
Fish is thought to have ruled late in the 31st century BC. [6]
He is known only from artefacts that bear his mark, a hieroglyphic fish symbol. The dates and geographic extent of his rule are not known nor is his actual name.
The Ebers Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Ebers, is an Egyptian medical papyrus of herbal knowledge dating to c. 1550 BC. Among the oldest and most important medical papyri of Ancient Egypt, it was purchased at Luxor in the winter of 1873–1874 by the German Egyptologist Georg Ebers. It is currently kept at the Leipzig University Library in Germany.
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