id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7987 Iry-Hor - Wikipedia .html text/html 3084 575 78 In the 1990s, Werner Kaiser and Günter Dreyer translate Iry-Hor's name as "Companion of Horus".[3] Toby Wilkinson, who contested that Iry-Hor was a king, translated the signs as "Property of the king".[10] Following the excavations at Abydos and the discovery of an inscription of Iry-Hor in the Sinai in 2012, Wilkinson's hypothesis is now rejected by most Egyptologists and Iry-Hor is widely accepted as a predynastic king of Egypt.[1][11][12] The Egyptologists Jürgen von Beckerath and Peter Kaplony also initially rejected the identification of Iry-Hor as a king and proposed instead that the known inscriptions refer to a private person whose name is to be read Wer-Ra, wr-r3 (lit. It is a double tomb, as big as those of Ka and Narmer, located within a sequential order linking the older predynastic "U" cemetery with the First Dynasty tombs.[16] Furthermore, Iry-Hor's name is inscribed on a large jar exhibiting the royal Horus falcon and is similar to those found in the tombs of other kings of this period. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7987.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7987.txt