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Key facts
- Reign
- c. 3400 BC
- Predecessor
- Taurus ? owner of tomb U-k ?
- Successor
- Double Falcon ? owner of tomb U-i ? Crocodile ? Later on Iry-Hor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Egypt
- Father
- Bull
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- pharaoh
- Noble title
- pharaoh
- Image
- Scorpion name.svg
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- date of birth
- 3500-00-00
- replaces
- Bull
- time period
- Protodynastic Period of Egypt
- place of burial
- Abydos
- replaced by
- Ni-Neith
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Encyclopedic overview
BurialTomb U-j, Umm El Qa'ab, Abydos DynastyDynasty 0
Scorpion I (fl. c. 3300 BC) was a ruler of Upper Egypt during Naqada III. He was one of the first rulers of Ancient Egypt, and a graffito of him depicts a battle with an unidentified predynastic ruler. His tomb is known for the evidence of early examples of wine consumption in Ancient Egypt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scorpion I” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.