Hor Awibre (also known as Hor I) was an Egyptian pharaoh.

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Hor Awibre (also known as Hor I) was an Egyptian pharaoh during the Second Intermediate Period. He is mentioned on the Turin canon, a king list compiled in the early Ramesside period. The papyrus is fragmentary in this section and gives him seven months of rule and this would have happened around the year 1760 BC. This corresponds very well to the archaeological remains since he didn’t have time to build a tomb of his own, and was buried in an old minor one. His fame comes from the lucky find of this very tomb placed just beside the pyramid of Amnemhet III at Dahshur. Although the tomb had been pillaged in antiquity, it still contained a naos with a rare life-size wooden statue of the Ka of the king.

The statue was covered with a fine layer of painted stucco. The king is sculpted wearing a three-part long wig, leaving the ears exposed. He wears a long, curved divine beard. It is noteworthy that the sculptor successfully modelled the inlaid eyes to lend a lifelike appearance to this expressive face. The eyes are inlaid with rock crystal and quartz. This statue is one of the best-preserved and most accomplished wooden statues to survive from antiquity.

The tomb also contained the partly gilded rotten wooden coffin of the king. The mummy of the king had been ransacked for his jewellery and only Hor’s skeleton was left in his coffin. The king was determined to have been in his forties at the time of his death.