Djer

Djer
Djer
Zher, Sekhty
	Cylinder seal impression depicting Djer before canine standards wearing the Hedjet and Deshret crowns and holding the flail
Pharaoh
Reign	41 years, c. 3000 BC
Predecessor	Hor-Aha or Menes
Successor	Djet
Horus name
Horus name
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Golden Horus
	Nynebu; nj-nbw; He who belongs to the Golden One
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Consort	Nakhtneith, Herneith, Penebui
Children	Merneith, Djet ?
Father	Hor-Aha
Mother	Khenthap ?, Neithhotep ?
Burial	Tomb O, Umm el-Qa'ab
Dynasty	middle of the 1st Dynasty

Djer (or Zer or Sekhty)^[1] is considered the third pharaoh of the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt in current Egyptology. He lived around the mid 31st century BC^[2] and reigned for c. 40 years. A mummified forearm of Djer or his wife was discovered by Egyptologist Flinders Petrie,^[3] but was discarded by Émile Brugsch.^[4]

^ Trigger, Bruce (1983). Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0521284271.
^ Grimal, Nicolas (1994). A History of Ancient Egypt. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 528. ISBN 0-631-19396-0.
^ W. M. Flinders Petrie: The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties, 1901, Part II, London 1901, p.16-17
^ Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity, Thames & Hudson, 1998, p. 109