Editing Djer (section)

== Reign ==
[[File:Djer’s Royal Bracelet 2018.jpg|thumb|Djer's queen's bracelet is the only surviving royal jewellry of the early dynasty period of Egypt. It bears his royal [[serekh]] or name.]]

Djer's reign was preceded by a regency controlled by [[Neithhotep]], possibly his mother or grandmother.

The evidence for Djer's life and reign is:<ref>[http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/chronology/kingdjer.html King Djer] page from digitalegypt.</ref>
* Tomb in [[Umm el-Qa'ab]], [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]]
* Seal prints from graves 2185 and 3471 in [[Saqqara]]
* Inscriptions in graves 3503, 3506 and 3035 in Saqqara
* Seal impression and inscriptions from [[Helwan (cemetery)|Helwan]]<ref>Saad 1947: 165; Saad 1969: 82, pl. 94</ref>
* Jar from Turah with the name of Djer<ref>Kaiser 1964: 103, fig.3</ref>
* UC 16182 ivory tablet from Abydos,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt//chronology/kingdjer.html|title=King Djer|website=www.ucl.ac.uk|accessdate=March 16, 2024}}</ref> subsidiary tomb 612 of the enclosure of Djer<ref>Petrie 1925: pl. II.8; XII.1</ref>
* UC 16172 copper adze with the name of Djer<ref>tomb 461 in Abydos, Petrie 1925: pl. III.1, IV.8</ref>
* Inscription of his name (of questioned authenticity, however) at [[Wadi Halfa]], [[Sudan]]

The inscriptions, on [[ivory]] and wood, are in a very early form of [[hieroglyphs]], hindering complete translation, but a label at Saqqarah may depict the First Dynasty practice of [[human sacrifice]].<ref>Rice, Michael ''The Power of the Bull'' Routledge; 1 edition (4 Dec 1997) {{ISBN|978-0-415-09032-2}} p123 [https://books.google.com/books?id=u4EOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA123]</ref> An ivory tablet from [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]] mentions that Djer visited [[Buto]] and [[Sais]] in the [[Nile Delta]]. One of his regnal years on the Cairo Stone was named "Year of smiting the land of ''[[Setjet]]''", which often is speculated to be Sinai or beyond.

[[Manetho]] claimed that Athothes, who is sometimes identified as Djer, had written a treatise on [[anatomy]] that still existed in his own day, over two millennia later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/manethowithengli00maneuoft/manethowithengli00maneuoft_djvu.txt|title = Manetho, with an English translation by W.G. Waddell|year = 1940}}</ref>