Ruler
Djet
King of the First Dynasty
c. 2950 BCE
Reign date very approximate.
Biography
His Horus name is written with a cobra inside the serekh. He is known mainly from his tomb at Umm el-Qa’ab, Abydos, and from his stone stela now in the Louvre.
About the evidence
Almost nothing is known of his life; the evidence is his tomb and objects bearing his name.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Djet was buried in the royal cemetery at Umm el-Qa’ab, Abydos, like the other First Dynasty kings.
- W. M. Flinders Petrie (1900) “The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty (Part I, 1900) and The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties (Part II, 1901)” Egypt Exploration Fund, London
- Toby A. H. Wilkinson (1999) “Early Dynastic Egypt” Routledge