| Hsekiu | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seka | |||||||||
 Closeup of the Palermo Stone. Hsekiu is the no. 2 | |||||||||
| Pharaoh | |||||||||
| Reign | Unknown | ||||||||
| Successor | Khayu? | ||||||||
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| Dynasty | Predynastic Period | ||||||||
Hsekiu,[2] alternatively Seka, is mentioned in the Palermo Stone as a Predynastic Egyptian pharaoh (king) who ruled in Lower Egypt. As there is no other evidence of such a ruler, he may be a mythical king preserved through oral tradition, or may even be completely fictitious.[3][4][5]
References
- ↑ From: Palermo Stone
- ↑ Peake, Harold and Herbert John Fleure, Priests and Kings, Clarendon OUP, Oxford, 1927, p. 63
- ↑ Helck, Untersuchungen zu Manetho und den ägyptischen Königslisten 1956, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Altertumskunde Ägyptens 18
- ↑ O'Mara, Was there an Old Kingdom historiography? Is it datable? 1996, Orientalia 65: 197-208
- ↑ Wilkinson, Toby A. H. (2000). Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt. p.85 New York: Columbia University Press). ISBN 0-7103-0667-9.
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