Ancient Egypt

    

Page by Anneke Bart





Kings and Queens

4th dynasty
Seneferu, Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, Djedefre, etc.

11th dynasty
Kings named Mentuhotep and Intef

12th dynasty
Amenemhet I - IV,
Senusret I-III


18th dynasty
Amenhotep I-IV,
Tuthmosis I-IV, Akhenaten, Tutankhamen, Aye, Horemheb, etc.


19th dynasty
Sety I-II, Ramesses I-II, Merenptah, Amenmesses, Tawosret.

20th dynasty

Sethnakht, Ramesses III
Ramesses IV - XI




Cleopatra VII Philopator

Queens (D1-6)- Old Kingdom
Queens (D11-13) Middle Kingd.
Queens (D16-20)- New Kingdom
Queens (D21-29)- Late Period




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

Seti I Menmaatre 

ca 1290-1279/8 BC

    

 

Horus name: Kanakht Khaemwaset-Seankhtawy
Nebty name: Wehemmesut Sekhemkhepesh Derpedjetpesdjet
Golden Falcon name: Wehemkhau Weserpedjutemtawnebu
Prenomen: Menmaatre
Nomen: Sety Merenptah






Father: Ramses I
Menpehtire
Mother:  Sitre  Great Wife, King’s Great Wife, Lady of the Two Lands, King’s Mother,  Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt. His mother is named Tiy in the 400 year stela. It is not clear if this is one and the same person.
Wife: (Mut-) Tuya King’s Wife, King’s Mother, Great Wife.



Ramesses I and Queen Sitre in Abydos, in the temple of Sety I

Sons:
Ramesses,  followed his father on the throne as Ramesses II.

Daughters:
Henutmire?: King’s Daughter, King’s Great Wife. Married her brother Ramses II. Buried in tomb QV75 in the Queens Valley. It should be noted that Henutmire is now thought by many to have been a daughter of Ramesses II instead. Some have even suggested she was a grand-daughter of Ramesses II.
Tia:  King’s Sister. Married to Tjia, Overseer of the Treasurers, and buried in Saqqara. Their tomb lies next to the tomb of Horemheb.


Scene from the tomb of Tia and Tia in Saqqara


Reign of Sety I      **** under construction! ****

A campaign against the Shasu:
According to the Karnak reliefs this was took place in the first year of Sety I's reign.
Stela from temple of Ptah:
Year I under the majesty of Seti I . . .  His majesty returned with glad heart from his first victorious campaign, when his onset passed over every country, and he took captive the rebellious countries by the puissance of his father, Amon, who decreed to him victorious might. He puts himself before him with glad heart ?furnishing protection for his son, assigning to him South, North, West, and East. They who invade his border are gathered together and delivered into his hand. There is none that thrusts aside his hand, carrying away their chiefs as living captives, with their tribute upon their backs, presenting them to his august father, Amon, and his associate gods, in order to fill their storehouse with male and female slaves, sthe captivity of every country. Lo, his majesty was at the Southern City (Thebes), performing the pleasing ceremonies of his father, Amon-Re, lord of Thebes ______ [Breasted]
War with the Libyans
the conquest of Palestine and some of southern Syria
campaign to the north as far east as the Hauran;" thence
westward along the Phcenician coast, perhaps as far as
Simyra, and Ullaza; the second, preceded by a subordinate
campaign against the Libyans, is the further prosecution of
the Syrian conquest. The method pursued is exactly that
of Thutmose 111 in his conquest of 130 years before (11,396))
viz., first to gain control of the Phoenician coast, and thor-
oughly establish connection with Egypt by sea, so that re-
inforcements and supplies for the next campaign might
land at one of the Phcenician harbors from which as a base
he could move upon the interior of Syria, especially the
Orontes alley.^ From the coast the war was now carried
inland and northward between the Lebanons, where the
Egyptians met the Hittites for the first time in battle."

War with the Hittites



Monuments:

Theban Temples


Temple of Sety I in Thebes
(photographs by Philip Arrhidaeus)

 
Temple of Sety I in Thebes
                     Head of Sety


Tomb KV17 in the King's Valley.
the tomb was discovered by Belzoni in the 19th century and is a magnificently decorated royal tomb.

http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/sites/browse_tomb_831.html
http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/pharaons/seti1/e_seti1.htm


Wooden Shabti found by Belzoni, now in the Manchester Museum. (Photo by Jess)


          

Hathor, who is at the head of Thebes,
beautiful of face, lady of Dendera;

the king of Upper and Lower Egypt Men-maat-Ra,
son of Ra, Sethos I, endowed with life as Ra for eternity
.
see also: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.com/record.aspx?id=9416


QV38 - Queen Sitre  God's Wife, King's Great Wife, Lady of the Two Lands, Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt.  (19th Dynasty)Wife of Rameses I, Mother of Sety I. She may be identical to a lady named Tia who was married to Sety before he came to the throne (according to the 400 year stela). Her full name may be Tia-Sitre. The tomb is not finished, and consists of a stairway leading to two chambers, one after the other. Only the first of these rooms is decorated. http://members.tripod.com/~ib205/vq38.html


Temple of Sety I in Abydos
Photographs by Jon Bodsworth (link)
Click on the photographs to see a larger image.

     

Sety I with Isis before Horus.                                                            

 

   

Some scenes on the rear wall of the Second Hypostyle Hall (original color)






A scene on the west wall of the Osiris Hall that is situated beyond the seven chapels and entered via the Osiris Chapel. It shows the raising of the Djed pillar.

 


Seti I receives royal regalia from the Ram headed Khnum and Amon




The Hall of Sokar and Nefertem.



Gallery with the King lists.

 

Close ups of the scene above. On the left we see Sety I with Crown Prince Ramesses. On the right, part of the King List.

     

Two more scenes showing Ramesses with his father Sety I.




Court Officials

Viziers:
Nebamun  (Northern Vizier) Nebamun is attested in the Memphite palace accounts early in Seti's reign.
Hatiay   (Northern Vizier) Hatiay is known from an inscription at Giza. He is shown with Seti I adoring the Sphinx.
Paser
(Southern Vizier) (TT106) Paser is a well known Vizier who lived on from Seti I's reign to the reign of  Ramses II. Son of Nebneteru Tenry (Chief Prophet of Amun) and Merytre (Chief of the Harem of Amun).;   Wife: Tiy (Chief of the Harem of Amun)

Amenemopet: Viceroy of Kush; Son of  Paser and grandson of Amenhotep-Huy and Taemwadjsy.
Pennesuttawy
, Captain of troops, Governor of the South Lands, TT156; Wife: Mia;  Son: Nakhtmin (Head of the stable of His Majesty);  Daughter: Beketwerner. Grandson: (Anher)Nakht (TT282) (Head of the Bowmen, Overseer of the Southlands).  

Priesthood:
Nebneteru Tenry (Chief Prophet of Amun) and Merytre (Chief of the Harem of Amun). Known from TT 106. This is the tomb of their son Paser, Governor of the Town and Vizier , Continued to serve under Ramses II; Wife of Paser: Tiy (Chief of the Harem of Amun); Sons of Paser: Taty (Head of the stable) and Iny
Amenemopet called Ipy, Amun temple high steward, Temp. Ramesses I - Sety I (Ramesses II) Titles: Superintendent of the Granary of the North and the South, Superintendent of the prophets of Min and Isis, Majordomo of the God’s Wife. Wife: Nodjemet, Chantress of Amun, born of the Chantress of Amun Maya. Parents: Dignitary Nefertiu and Aniy, Chantress of Amun, Mut and of Khons. TT 41
Userhet called Neferhabef, High priest of king's ka for king Thutmose I, Temp. Rameses I - Sety I ; Parents: Khonsuemhab and Tausert (according to the Griffith Institute); Wife: Hatshepsut, named Shepset    Mother-in-law(?): Henuttaui.                          

Hormin: Superior of the harem of the King
Raia, Overseer of the Horses, Fanbearer on the right of the King, (later) Overseer of the royal apartments of the King's private apartments in the Harem of Memphis, etc. Found in Saqqara by the Anglo-Dutch expedition in 1994.
Tia and Tia,  Overseer of the Treasury, Fanbearer on the right of the king, etc, (husband) and the King's Noble Sister, Songstress of Amun, Chief of the temple muscicians of Pre (wife). Tia (the wife) was a sister of Ramses II. She was the daughter of Seti I and Queen Tuy. Daughters: Mutmetjennefer and an unnamed girl.




Bibliography / Suggested Reading
1.Breasted, J.H. Ancient Records of Egypt, Vol3 Chicago 1906 (reprinted in 2001)
2. Dodson A. and Hilton D. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, London 2004
3. Tyldesley, J. Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaoh, Penguin Books 2001
4. Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee and Elizabeth Miles:  Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and PaintingsVolume VIII: Objects of Provenance Not Known: Statues  (Published online by the Griffith Institute)
5. Tomb KV17 on Osiris.net http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/pharaons/seti1/e_seti1.htm
6. Theban Mapping Project page for KV17 http://www.kv5.com/sites/browse_tomb_831.html
7. Sety I page on digitalegypt http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/chronology/setyi.html



Stela of Amenhotep, Scribe of the Table of the Lord of the Two Lands, the Master of Festivals of Osiris, time of Sety I





An offering which the king gives to Osiris, Foremost of the West, the great god, the ruler of eternity. Greetings to you, lords of everlastingness, who go as crew of heaven, as crew of the hourly service, who live forever! I have presented you with Maat. I cause Maat to ascend to you. For the Ka of the scribe of the table, Amenhotep.
An offering which the king gives to Ptah-Sokar, the Lord of Shetit. I desire transformation in the necropolis. I have come to you, Lord of Ta-djeser, Osiris, Foremost of the West, so that you may give transformation in heaven, power on earth, and justification in the necropolis to the Ka of the scribe of the table of the Lord of the Two Lands, Huy, true of voice.
Osiris, Foremost of the West, the great god, the Lord of Eternity, the Lord of the Throne of Everlastingness.The beautiful goddess of the West, the Mistress of Everlastingness.Adoring Ptah-Sokar,Praising Osiris,Kissing the earth in front of the Lord of Ta-djeser by the Scribe of the Table of the Lord of the Two Lands, the Master of Festivals of Osiris, Amenhotep.
The Osiris, the Staff-bearer of the Lord of the Two Lands, Pehui true of voice.
Tii true of voice
An offering of all good and pure things, bread and beer, meat and poultry by his son, the Scribe of the Table of the Lord of the Two Lands, Huy, His sister, whom he loves, the mistress of the house, Ki. The lector priest of Ptah, Pa-tir.
See: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.com/record.aspx?id=4725




Last edited: February 2007









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