Tarkhan tomb 315, jar UC 16071

Jar with the name of a king, maybe to read "Horus Crocodile"

UC 16071 (pottery type 50d; the jar is not mentioned in the tomb register). The drawing by Petrie of the name on the right seems to be inaccurate, and was perhaps made before the pot was cleaned.

UC 16071, jar with king's name

Bibliography

Petrie 1913: pl. XXXI, 66 (copy of the inscription)
Adams/Cialowicz 1997: 59, fig. 41 (providing a good photograph of the inscription)
Dreyer 1992: Abb. 1a/b (discussion of the name, reading "crocodile")
Kahl 1994: 15-16
Kaplony 1963: pl. 1 (photograph and new drawing of the name, reading: king Scorpion)