Wash (fir'auna)

Wash (fir'auna)
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	4 millennium "BCE"
Sana'a

Wanke yuwuwar fir'auna ce daga zamanin Predynastic a tsohuwar Masar, kusan shekaru 5,000 da suka gabata. Kamar yadda aka sani kawai ta hanyar bayyanarsa a matsayin fursuna na fir'auna Narmer akan palette mai suna, ana hamayya da wanzuwar sa.

Kasancewar tarihin Wash ba shi da tabbas. Masanin kimiyyar kayan tarihi na Burtaniya James E. Quibell da Frederick W. Green ne suka gano abin da ya bayyana a kansa. Sun tono pallet a lokacin lokacin tona 1897-98 a Haikali na Horus a Nekhen. Juyin Palette ɗin yana nuna kamammun da ke durƙusa, "Bayan Masarautar a zahiri", wanda babban adadi na Narmer ke shirin kwantawa. Kamar dai yadda Narmer ke da motar bus mai wakiltar sunansa da aka zana kusa da shi a gaban palette (wani kifin da ke sama da chisel), wasu manyan hieroglyphs guda biyu sun bayyana kusa da wanda aka kama. Waɗannan ƙananan hotuna ne na garaya da tafki. Masana sun yi la'akari da wannan jirgin ruwan harpoon-da-lake a matsayin ko dai wakilcin sunan Harpoon, wata al'umma a yankin Arewa maso yammacin Nilu kusa da iyakokin Libya, ko kuma sunan mutumin da aka kama. Idan na karshen ne to ana iya karanta sunan fursuna a matsayin Wash ko Washi.

Idan Wash mutum ne mai tarihi zai iya kasancewa mai mulki na ƙarshe na daular Masarawa ta Masar da ke Buto. Lallai, shaharar Narmer ta ta'allaka ne akan kasancewar Fir'auna na Masar na sama don kayar da Fir'auna Ƙarshen Masar na ƙarshe. Koyaya, maimakon yin rikodin wannan taron na tarihi, palette ɗin na iya nuna kwatancen fifikon Narmer da haƙƙin umarni, tare da ɗaukar siffar Wash zuwa aikin.

Masanin ilimin kimiyyar tarihi Edwin van den Brink ya yi jayayya cewa wani mai mulkin Masar na farko, Hedju Hor, shine adadi da aka nuna a matsayin Wash. van den Brinc ya kafa wannan gardamar akan kamanceceniya tsakanin Hor's own heraldic crest, serekh, da zane-zane a sama da Wash a kan Narmer palette wanda ke nuna Horus yana jagorantar jirgin ruwa daga papyrus reeds tare da igiya ta hanci na namiji.