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Kings and Queens
11th dynasty
Mentuhotep I
Intef I Sehertawy
Intef II Wahankh
Intef III
Nakhtnebtepnefer
Mentuhotep II Nebhepetre
Mentuhotep III Sankhare
Mentuhotep IV Nebtawyre


12th dynasty
Amenemhat I (Sehetepibre)
Senusret I Kheperkare
Amenemhat (II) Nubkaure
Senusret (II) Khakheperre
Senusret (III) Khakaure
Amenemhat (III) Nimaatre
Amenemhat (IV) Maakherure
Queen Sobeknefru Sobekkare


18th dynasty
Ahmose
Amenhotep I
Tuthmosis I
Tuthmosis II
Queen Hatshepsut
Tuthmosis III
Amenhotep II
Tuthmosis IV
Amenhotep III
Queen Tiye
Akhenaten
Queen Nefertiti
inscriptions Queen Nefertiti.
Queen Kiya

Smenkhare
Tutankhamen
Aye
Horemheb


19th dynasty
Ramesses I
Sety I
Queen Mut-Tuya,
Ramses II

Queen Nefertari
Queen Isetnofret  
Queen Bint-Anath  
Queen Merytamen  
Queen Henutmire
Queen Nebettawy
Prince Khaemwaset
Temples - Ramesses II
Merneptah
Seti II, Amenmesse,
Siptah, and Tawosret 


20th dynasty

Sethnakht
Ramesses III

Ramesses IV - XI


Cleopatra VII Philopator

Old Kingdom Queens (Dyn 1-6)
Middle Kingdom Queens (Dyn 11-13)
New Kingdom Queens (Dyn 16-20)



Officials, Priesthood etc.
Viziers (New Kingdom)
High Priests of Amun
God's Wives of Amun
High Priests of Ptah
Viceroys of Nubia
Who's who of New Kingdom


Amarna Period
Akhenaten
Queen Nefertiti
inscriptions Queen Nefertiti.
Queen Kiya

Smenkhare
Tutankhamen
Tombs at Amarna
Houses at Amarna

Tombs:
Valley of the Kings,
Valley of the Queens
Theban Tombs,
Tombs at Abydos
Tombs at El Kab
Tombs in Aswan
Early dynastic Saqqara
New Kingdom Saqqara
The Unis Cemetary

Mastabas at the Giza Plateau
Giza Mastabas 1000 cemetary
Giza Mastaba 2000 cemetary
Giza Mataba 2300 cemetary
Giza Mastaba 4000 cemetary
Giza Mastaba 5000 cemetary
Giza Mastaba 6000 cemetary
Giza Mastaba 7000 cemetary

Mummy Caches
Tomb DB320
Tomb KV35

Sethnakht


ca 1186-1183 BC


Horus name: Kanakht Werpehti
Nebty name: Tutkhaumitatjenen
Golden Falcon name: Sekhemkhepeshder(kher)uef
Prenomen: Userkhaure-setepenre
Nomen: Setnakht

First king of the Twentieth Dynasty. 
It is not known who the parents of Sethnakht were. Ramesses II did have a son named Ramesses-Sethnakht, but there is no evidence linking this son with the future king Sethnakht. Sethnakht's great royal wife was a lady by the name of Tiye-Merenesse. They had a son named Ramesses who would take the throne after his father as Ramesses III.

Queens:

  • Tiye-Meren-Iset Wife of Sethnakht. Depicted in Abydos
    Titles: none according to Grajetzki, but Dodson/Hilton list Great King’s Wife (hmt-niswt-wrt), and King’s Mother (mwt-niswt)

Tiye Meren Iset (Tiye, beoved of Isis), Abydos.
  • Satre Tameri ?: A partial name appears in the tomb of Sethnakht (KV 14) and may read Satre Tameri. This tomb was originally cut for Queen Ta-Usert. Maybe a misreading of Satre Merytamen, a name for Tawosret? [no titles]
  • Habadilat (Hubunradat) ?: Habadilat is the mother of Queen Isis, one of the Queens of Ramesses III. The title of King’s wife is only mentioned in the tomb robbery papyrus. This papyrus mentions the theft of her silver coffin and a golden shroud. If she was a King’s wife during her life, then she may have been married to Sethnakht. Queen Isis does not have the title of King’s Daughter though. Titles: none according to Dodson/Hilton but Grajetzki lists: King’s Mother (mwt-niswt), King’s Wife (hmt-nisw)


Burial place: Rock-cut tomb at Thebes (Valley of the Kings tomb 14)

From papyrus Harris we learn the following about the short reign of Sethnakht:

Former Anarchy
Hear ye: that I may inform you of my benefactions which I did while I was king of the people. The land of Egypt was overthrown from without, and every man was ([thrown] out) of his right; they had no chief mouth for many years formerly until other times. The land of Egypt was in the hands of chiefs and of rulers of towns; one slew his neighbor, great and small. Other times having come after it, with empty years, Yarsu ,  a certain Syrian was with them as chief. He set the whole land tributary before him together; he united his companions and plundered their possessions.
They made the gods like men, and no offerings were presented in the temples.
Rule of Setnakht
But when the gods inclined themselves to peace, to set the land [in] its right according to its accustomed manner, they established their son, who came forth from their limbs, to be Ruler, L. P. H., of every land, upon their great throne, (even) Userkhare-Setepnere-Meriamon, L. P. H., Son of Re, Setnakht-Mererre-Meriamon, L. P. H. He was Khepri-Set, when he is enraged; he set in order the entire land, which had been rebellious; he slew the rebels who were in the land of
Egypt; he cleansed the great throne of Egypt; he was Ruler, L. P. H., of the Two Lands, on the throne of Atum. He gave [ready faces, which had been turned away] Every man knew his brother who hadbeen walled in. He established the temples in possession of divine offerings, to offer to the gods according to their customary stipulations.
Rise of Ramses III and Death of Setnakht
He appointed me to be hereditary prince in the place of Keb, I was the great chief mouth ( r 3 -hr)g of the lands of Egypt, and commander of the whole land united in one. He went to rest in his horizon, like the gods; there was done for him that which was done for Osiris; he was rowed in his king's-barge upon the river, land rested in his eternal house west of the be.
[From Breasted, Ancient Records, Volume 4.]

Other records from the time of Sethnakht:
Stela found at Elephantine
Stela from Sinai, Serabit el-Khadim
Stela of the viceroy Hori, Amarah West


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