Semat

Semat in hieroglyphs
Semat Sm3.t The Companion[1]

Semat was an Ancient Egyptian Queen, who was a wife of the King Den. She was buried near him in Abydos.

Very little is known about Semat besides a stela discovered near Den's tomb in Abydos. She held the titles of

M33.t-Ḥr.(w) Maat-Hor "She who sees Horus"	Rnm.t-Stš Renmet-Setesh "She who carries Seth"

Both of these titles were associated with queens in ancient Egypt.^[2] Semat was not the only woman identified from funerary stela. Other women whose funerary stela were found near Den's tomb are Seshemetka and Serethor.^[3]

Until the Second World War the stela was in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, but was destroyed in the war.^[4]

References

1. ↑ Silke Roth: Die Königsmütter des Alten Ägypten. P 382.
2. ↑ Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547218-9-3
3. ↑ Tyldesley, Joyce. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006. ISBN 0-500-05145-3
4. ↑
   • Geoffrey Thorndike Martin: Umm el-Qaab VII, Private Stelae of the Early Dynastic Period from the Royal Cemetery at Abydos, Archäologischer Veröffentlichungen 123, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06256-5, p. 100-101, no. 129, pl. 35.

External links

• Francesco Raffaele: Queen Semat (English)
• List of tombs at Abydos