Vessel fragment bearing the inscription Ḥwt-k3 Ḥrw-z3.
Pharaoh
Reign
2nd or 3rd Dynasty
Royal titulary
Burial
uncertain, gallery tomb at Saqqara ?, Gisr el-mudir ?
Horus Sa (also Horus Za, Sa and Za) was a possible early Egyptian pharaoh who may have reigned during the Second or Third Dynasty of Egypt. His existence is disputed, as is the meaning of the artifacts that have been interpreted as confirming his existence.
cases the name "HorusSa" does not appear within a serekh and its identification as the Horus-name of a king is disputed. The name "HorusSa" always appears...
regarded as a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death. The most commonly encountered family relationship describes Horus as the son of Isis and Osiris...
many as three titles: the Horus, the Sedge and Bee (nswt-bjtj), and the Two Ladies or Nebty (nbtj) name. The Golden Horus and the nomen and prenomen...
as a primary alternative. The issue is confusing because "Narmer" is a Horus name while "Menes" is a Sedge and Bee name (personal or birth name). All...
him, but there are difficulties in connecting that name with contemporary Horus names, so some Egyptologists question the received throne sequence. Djoser...
figures of the goddess Bastet were found, on which, at their bases, the horus name of Khufu is incised. They were deposited at Saqqara during the Middle...
of the First Dynasty, successor of Djer. Djet's Horus name means "Horus Cobra" or "Serpent of Horus". Djet's queen was his sister Merneith, who may have...
and Peter Kaplony proposed that Sanakht's Horus name is that of the shadowy HorusSa, seeing the name "Sa" as a short form of "Sanakht". From this, Wolfgang...
to her son with that of the Egyptian goddess Isis and her divine child Horus. There is no historical record of Caesarion between 44 BC until the Donations...
Horus name reveals a clearly defined, symbolic meaning in its translation. Horus- and nebty names being the same might also indicate, that the Horus name...
realm. The five names were developed over the centuries beginning with the Horus name. Tutankhamun's original nomen, Tutankhaten, did not have a Nebty name...
Königsnamen (1999) translates the hieroglyphs of the name Djer as "Defender of Horus." Although the Egyptian priest Manetho, writing in the third century BC...
Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty. John Wiley & Sons. Gae Callender, The Eye Of Horus: A History of Ancient Egypt, Longman Cheshire (1993), p.263 Merrill, J....
Weneg-Nebti and Wadjenes are identical and that Wadjenes's Horus name was Sekhemib-Perenmaat or HorusSa. The ancient Egyptian historian Manetho called Wadjenes...
of the next few rulers is unclear. Surviving sources might be giving the Horus name or the Nebty name and the birth names of these rulers. They may also...
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