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Setut

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Setut[2]orSenen...[1]was apharaohof the9th Dynastyofancient Egypt(between 2160 and 2130 BCE, during theFirst Intermediate Period).[2]

There is no contemporary archaeological find attesting the existence of this ruler since he is definitely known only by theTurin King List,where his incomplete nameSenen[...]appears in position 4.22. He should have reigned fromHerakleopolisafterNebkaure KhetyorWahkare Khety,[3]being one of the ephemeral rulers of the late 9th Dynasty. He was succeeded by an unknown king of the same dynasty.[2][4]

References[edit]

  1. ^abJürgen von Beckerath,Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen(=Münchner ägyptologische Studien,vol 46), Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1999.ISBN3-8053-2310-7,pp. 72-73.
  2. ^abcWilliam C. Hayes,inThe Cambridge Ancient History,vol 1, part 2, 1971 (2008), Cambridge University Press,ISBN0-521-077915.p. 996.
  3. ^Darrell D. Baker:The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC,Stacey International,ISBN978-1-905299-37-9,2008, p. 389-390
  4. ^Hayes, op. cit., p. 465-66.